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This spectacular bird is a male regent bowerbird, the most colorful of the Australian bowerbirds. As in all other bowerbird species, males court females (which have a modest cryptic coloration) in special structures called bowers. In general there is an inverse relationship between plumage brightness and the size and sophistication of the bower, and the regent fits that pattern: its bower is a simple structure of twigs on the forest floor. I photographed this tame bird at O'Reilley's guest house in Lamington National Park in southeast Queensland. |
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