The incident points to the wider impact of plastics on native Australian animals. Footage of a satin bowerbird’s (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus) struggle when a ring from a plastic bottle became caught ...

You’re going to speak to an audience of two million as part of National Simultaneous Storytime, which has run for the past 24 years – yet you’ve spoken in the past about your shyness. How have you ...

Discover how cognitive ability and reproductive success impact male bowerbird mating in this fascinating exploration of courtship behavior. breeding season, males build a special platform, or bower, ...

Bowerbirds are well known for their unique courtship behaviour during which, in an attempt to attract a mate, a male builds a ‘bower’ or small enclosed structure of woven sticks and pebbles and ...

A rambunctious bowerbird youth has been constructing his bower a metre from where Guardian Australia data and interactive editor Nick Evershed's kids jump on the trampoline. The kids have been rapt, ...

Golden bowerbirds are known for their faithfulness: often the bowers constructed by these birds remain the same for up to 30 years. But when these intricately constructed twig formations start ...

The Australian bowerbird is a thief. They like all the shiny things and things of a particular color. For Kim, his passion is all things white. Shoelaces, bracelets, flower petals, hats, or necklaces.

In many species of birds, the males are far showier than the females. Males of some species might possess colorful plumage or exaggerated physical features to catch a female’s eye, while males of ...

Dancing around an intricate bower in a backyard in Canberra's south is a bird that's determined to woo his female counterparts. He has rich satin blue plumage, a pale blue and white bill and striking ...