Satin bowerbirds
Ptilonorhynchus violaceus. Male Satin bowerbirds build specialised stick structures, called bowers, and they decorate the area with blue and sometimes yellow objects. Those objects are sometimes natural objects such as feathers, flowers, seed-pods and fruits, but more often now are artificial items, mostly plastic. Females visit these bowers and choose which male they will allow to mate with them.
Photographed on the University of Wollongong campus, New South Wales, Australia.
A focus stack (of two images) using Zerene Stacker.
Satin bowerbirds
Ptilonorhynchus violaceus. Male Satin bowerbirds build specialised stick structures, called bowers, and they decorate the area with blue and sometimes yellow objects. Those objects are sometimes natural objects such as feathers, flowers, seed-pods and fruits, but more often now are artificial items, mostly plastic. Females visit these bowers and choose which male they will allow to mate with them.
Photographed on the University of Wollongong campus, New South Wales, Australia.
A focus stack (of two images) using Zerene Stacker.