bowerbird aesthetics
A pair of pied butcherbirds deliver prey to their nestlings. © Robert Inglis.
A pied butcherbird at the nest. © Robert Inglis.
pied butcherbirds
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Satin bowerbird bowers.
Western bowerbird bowers.
Great bowerbird bowers.
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An 1848 drawing of the pied
butcherbird by English ornithologist
and bird artist John Gould.
A 1922 drawing of the pied butcherbird by Danish naturalist and artist Henrik Gronvold.
Delphine calls in her pied butcherbirds for a
feed on Magnetic Island (right).
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The home movie "Butcherbird auditioning to join the band" shows Steve singing and playing guitar while a bird vocalizes at his front door.
Steve writes: "One the video of the bird demanding breakfast, you will hear the very worst rendition of Blackbird ever." (Not so, and made all the more fascinating by this interspecies encounter.
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Alan Turpie's novel solution to repel swooping birds.