bower bird
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The regent bower bird Sericulus chrysocephalus is found in the rainforests of northeast Australia and New Guinea. The male seeks to impress his mate by building a colourfully decorated bower. It is the female who builds the nest; her dull plumage camouflages her while she is sitting on her eggs and feeding her young.
New Guinean and northern Australian bird of the family Ptilonorhynchidae, order Passeriformes, related to the bird of paradise. The males are dull-coloured, and build elaborate bowers of sticks and grass, decorated with shells, feathers, or flowers, and even painted with the juice of berries, to attract the females. There are 17 species.
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