World Bird Wednesday - Satin Bowerbird

In the Victorian alpine rainforest I saw a pair of Satin

Bowerbirds, Chlamydera violaceus, while the female was

gorging herself on Persimmons,

the male was very hard to nail down. In the Persimmon tree

he fed well in the depths of the tree and in the tree below, I only

got a glimpse of him with his back turned. I saw two more

while we were there but always high up and far away or hidden

inside the leafy protection of a tree. The male is black with a

purple sheen, he collects blue and yellow objects in his bower

where he displays for his lady.

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