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"Gazing at people, some hand in hand,
Just what I'm going through they can't understand.
Some try to tell me, thoughts they cannot defend,
Just what you want to be, you will be in the end."
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The satin bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus) is a bowerbird endemic to eastern Australia.
Mature males have violet-blue eyes and are uniformly coloured black, however, light diffraction by the surface texture of the feathers results in an almost metallic sheen giving a deep shiny blue appearance.
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This species presents marked sexual dimorphism.
The male is dark in colour with a metallic blue sheen and builds an amazing bower that he decorates with all sorts of blue things he finds to please the female.
O'Reilly's Rainforest Retreat - Lamington National Park
Australia
This bowerbird builds a big bower that it decorates with all kinds of objects it finds in bright blue
Species # 1410
O'Reilly's Rainforest Retreat - Lamington National Park
Australia
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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.
He as just came out of is chrysalis.
He was on the floor.his wings was
Going at a hundred miles a hour.
He was drying them I think.
But I put him somewhere safe.
I have never seen one before
Satin Bowerbirds are intermittent visitors to my garden, they are bullied by other birds, and especially Lorikeets.
The waters barely seem to move as the clouds fill the sky. the contrast of the craggy rocks against the silkiness of the water is a feast for the eyes.
Macro Mondays: Translucent
This is the beautiful hat that my sister wore years ago at her best friend's wedding. My sister's outfit was so beautiful that when we got the photos developped (yes, it was *that* long ago), the photographer gasped and asked me "your sister got married?"
Anyway, first I was thinking of the volutes of tulle for today's theme, but the satin roses also had shiny, translucent petals.
The rose is quite small, about 4 cm.