The bower

Near home is this excellent example of a Satin bowerbird's bower.

Like all bowerbirds, the Satin Bowerbird shows highly complex courtship behaviour.

Males build specialized stick structures, called bowers, which they decorate with blue, yellow, and shiny objects if these are available, including berries, flowers, and even ballpoint pens, drinking straws and other discarded plastic items like clothes pegs. As the males mature they use more blue objects than other colours.

Females visit these and choose which male they will allow to mate with them.

In addition to building their bowers, males carry out intense behavioural displays called dances to woo their mates.

The male who built this bower would very likely be mature as he has displayed an excellent collection of found blue objects - nothing but blue, and rather artistically arranged I might add.