Satin Bowerbird courtship behavior (4K)
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- čas přidán 11. 12. 2017
- I am looking for bowerbirds sites to film around Brisbane. If any viewer has one nearby with the chance to do it, please notify me. Thanks in advance.
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Description
Bowerbirds are unique passerines known for its
elaborate courtship behaviour.
They mingle with females and juveniles feeding on
the same areas but when it comes to the breeding
period, September to February, they exhibit unique
features. The male Satin Bowerbird starts to build a
structure, a bower, with sticks that joins together
with glue made with vegetable material and
saliva. For 6 months he continually cares for the
bower almost fanatically. He puts ornaments around
it, changing places, and changing objects to attract
females. When it considers it appropriate the Satin
makes a display with grunting notes and grasps
while arranging/carrying the jewels. He has to fight
against curious juveniles robbing sticks and trying
to practice the skills, working from dawn to dusk.
Sometimes when everything seems to go well, in
In the end, the female does not accept the mating, in
others, for an unknown reason, it seems that it is
the right time, the females open the cloaca and
puts herself in position in the bower, he displays
and shows the penis, all set? no, all of a sudden
he flees. Very few times the mating is done, he has
six months to do the job Nature assigned him to do
to preserve the species.
Bowerbirds are unique passerines known for its
elaborate courtship behaviour.
They mingle with females and juveniles feeding in
the same areas but when it comes to the breeding
period, September to February, they exhibit unique
features. The male Satin Bowerbird starts to build a
structure, a bower, with sticks that joins together
with glue made with vegetable material and
saliva. For 6 months he continually cares for the
bower almost fanatically. He puts ornaments around
it, changing places, and changing objects to attract
females. When it considers it appropriate the Satin
makes a display with grunting notes and grasps
while arranging/carrying the jewels. He has to fight
against curious juveniles robbing sticks and trying
to practice the skills, working from dawn to dusk.
Sometimes when everything seems to go well, in
In the end, the female does not accept the mating, in
others, for an unknown reason, it seems that it is
the right time, the females open the cloaca and
puts herself in position in the bower, he displays
and shows the penis, all set? no, all of a sudden
he flees. Very few times the mating is done, he has
six months to do the job Nature assigned him to do
to preserve the species.
This edited video is available for rights purchasing at www.naturefootage.com under the ID: CF171211_0001, as well as all the individual clips used to make the video, look for Satin Bowerbird name. - Zábava
I love how his blue bower decorations bring out his beautiful eye color - what a ladies’ man! Seriously bowerbirds are amazing creatures.
Bowerbirds are extremely beautiful. Their courtship is awesome. you captured the video beautifully.
We have a bower bird too so amazing to watch as he gathers all the blue objects 😊
ron: you want blue?
becky: yes
Nice video Carlo. I have a satin bower bird and bower in a front garden bed. He does an excellent job of maintaining a large area around the bower, keeping it open and almost weed free. I never enter or interfere with his area. On the adjacent lawn up to 20 females sometimes gather to socialise and presumably take turns checking out the bachelor and his pad. I never get tired of the male's dicky antics and "singing", though sometimes his lady friends seem unimpressed.
Thanks Colin, it took a great deal of work because I did it in a public place in Darling Downs in a caravan park. I'd love to have one in my house but in the city is impossible, I am always trying to get a more comfortable one to make more shots to do a full video, always remember my house overseas where I could do things like this, Australia has been hard for me trying to replicate my films shots from South America.
Looks like blue is their favorite color. Beautiful bird.
Grey and pink for the Great Bowerbird
czcams.com/video/b5kt2p9AadY/video.html
They also like purple and mauve but I guess blue is easier to find.
Cool collection of footage.
I currently have a male resident bower in my backyard, and he rolls in a very similar fashion.
I chuckled at the bit where he had the bottle ring + yelliw bit (onion rind?) in his beak as he crooned.
He sings and acts almost like a broken robot :)
For the Lady Bowerbird that most be the equivalent of a Musical Theatre Play, only very trained and seasoned Ethologists might understand in certain extent the animal behaviour. After half a century..... still learning.
I was sleeping with my friend, and he felt something on his feet (we were under a tarp btw), it was a satin bowerbird just chilling.
Where?
What a little Romeo...
I'll never again pick on someone trying to pickup at the club by doing the robot.
Ever wonder what he is thinking. I imagine the pre-courtship jitters like "OKMark, you can do this -- So OK -- do the song thing first, and for real - don't seem too desperate, don't trip on that blue bottle ring like you did last time, ook... wow she is a looker, ok she may be the hottest one all year, ok here it goes..."
Nicole Mikloiche love that interpretation!
He sounds like old dial up !
Hahaha...EXCELLENT! He does sound like he suffers from "performance anxiety", doesn't he? Do they have viagra for birds...?
4:44
Ron: Mission accomplish
Dude's more romantic than most men I've known
Spot on!
I have their bowers on my property, not far from my back door. I sometimes leave blue things for them to collect but never the rings from bottle caps as they get them stuck over their heads. A male once flew into my garage and couldn't find his way out. I picked him up and took him out and put him down in the car-port and sat down. We sat and stared at each other for about 5 minutes before he flew off. They have the most glorious violet eyes. The videos don't do them justice.
If you watch the shots as they are, 4K AppleProRes, in a 4K Pro monitor, then you can see that the video does them justice. Remember that CZcams only accepts .mp4 files and their compression on site is not really the best....
@@CarloFerraro I've held the frickin' bird in my hand and they're constantly on my verandah. You're being silly. No video does justice to a beautiful creature, regardless of the video quality - particularly something as small as the eyes. You're too thin-skinned. Don't reply. Also, remove those plastic cap rings from that bird's area. Those plastic rings will kill him. If you knew anything about your subject you would already have done so.
HI,,,, MY FRIEND
GREETING FROM INDONESIA
SATIN BOWERBIRD so beautiful bird
nice share... good luck brother
HE EARNED IT !!!
Thanks for much for sharing!! Amazing footage! Great edit!!
Cast: Gordon, Charlotte, Ben, Ron, Becky, Amy
additional: Helen, Derek
Gorgeous! I have around ten bowerbirds outside my house. Gorgeous birds. The honeyeaters keep bullying them though :/
Where are you located?
wow. .nature is always beautiful. ..
becky: ron ur tail is to smal
ron: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
LEMME SMASSH PLZ
Anyone notice all blue stuff is the color of the birds own eyes?
Beautiful video ever seen. Thanks.
It's a blue theme and some gal will love that
Bower birds are certainly cool critters.
Birds love , How impressively impressive ! My heart is yummy , seeing the love of these beloved birds !!!!
Our bower bird has 5 ladies must be a disco dancer of sorts
Matthew Walker. Are they all ladies or there are some juveniles in the party? Where are you located?
ما. اجمل. هاذا. الطاير. عنده. افكار. وكيف. يجعل. عشه. جميل. حتا. الانثى. تكون. مبسوط.
This is not just pushing a hedge of grasses aside to make a hole and dropping several colored thingabobs on the ground. To me, it says architectural idea, placing of specific items gathered for color and shape in selected areas, and finessing it all many times. If we are not part of this through evolutionary history - then what are we?
Bro said I love blue just like your eyes 😍😍😍
he was too eager
SOOOO BEAUTIFUUUUUUL
Les oiseaux sont magnifique.bravo.
Yes, they are...
That was quick!😂
Good video
Thanks
So smart like architects ;)
So awesome.
He totally put his hand on her head like “you ain’t going nowhere!”
Climax super
explains ferrari :)
csodás természet
*Starts Putting Blue Stuff In Random Places At the Forest*
Interesting to know if this is a learned feature (they watch and practice a lot) or inherited, greater bowerbirds collect white jewels.
You want blue?
Patient work
Mais. Românticos que. Certos. Humanos
Here in townsville we have lots of great Bowerbirds. They are grey with a pink crest and they steal silver and shiny things, and pink. Very common and funny. One sits on my fence right outside my window and screams
What is the time frame for male Great Bowerbird when doing most matings in Townsville? In Far North is different than here in SE for the Satin, Oct to Jan. Been to Atherton till Mt Molloy in November and they were almost done. Do you have sites located there?
Anthropomorphism Is one of the main causes for animals extinction. Media and Zoos help creating a wrong image of wildlife. Follow the money…..
Great Bowerbird, sequence working on bower 1/2
czcams.com/video/b5kt2p9AadY/video.html
Wow.
4:42
Catherine: anything to smash for
Kyle: oh yes! SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH!
what would these birds bring back in the day when there weren't blue rubbish items?
KM. They did it with blue flower petals, blue berries and other vegetable matter in Nature, like the species in Papúa still do now, her jewels now are a way of telling mankind how irresponsible we are, Homo porcinus........nobody reads the signs Nature is showing continuously, you remember the Italian say: when the water reaches the butt, it’s time to learn to swim, we got it now around the neck!
Everything cool until laser spider comes to rescue her boyfriend.
Hi :) I work for a show 'SBS (Seoul Broadcasting System from South Korea) TV animal farm'. I'm wondering if we could include your video in our weekly show's opening for full credit. I hope to receive your positive reply. Thank you.
Wow what type of bird
finally he scored a lady! his trash nest was lovely!
I’ve got them in my very tall paperbarks
They are Randy little guys
Not sure if they have a bower but there’s young ones here this year
North coast Nsw
Aren't they beautiful Cathy. We get them up at my dad's in the gold coast hinterland. My dad has 13 acres surrounded by beautiful forest. We also get king parrots which we by hand. It's a privilege to be surrounded by such beautiful nature.
Hey bird can I know your favorite color?.. of course Human !can't you see Blue is everywhere..
bow down to ben who do no smashin
Imagino que o plástico azul no ambiente tenha sido forjado para testar (?) o comportamento do pássaro-macho, muito embora cada espécie aja instintivamente como tem que agir durante este ritual.
They find blue stuff everywhere, now it is hard not to be near populated areas and find plastics everywhere, in remote areas they probably use flowers and fruits. The Great Bowerbird uses mainly white shells but also plastics, aluminium foil, etc. hard to be far from pollution, same when you try to record nature sounds, almost impossible not to catch human stuff. All “jewels” were there around the bower, nothing new was introduced.
@@CarloFerraro Thank you, Carlo. I am surprised and sad at the same time. Sad because of plastics that are a consequence of environmental pollution. While watching the video, I saw a yellow sticker that appeared some time later, I thought that the person who filmed it had thrown it there to test it. On the other hand, surprised by the "choice" of elements of the blue color (or the vibration that this color causes, because as far as I know, animals do not perceive colors as humans do).
@@issuarteful . Yes, I filmed, of course, when you put anything different to blue or in a different position they immediately restore THEIR order, what works best for the females. They see in gray and since every color has an equivalent in gray, they easily recognize it. There are more complicated arrangements (that we can not imagine) like a penguin recognizing his chick by a call in a million individuals colony. If we were the humbler we should be we would understand how little we know in this world, 300.00 years vs 560 million of life in Nature.
@@CarloFerraro Congratulations on your videographic material. About the use of color, I already knew about this correspondence that you talk about between the wavelength of each color and each shade of gray. The rearrangement that the bird makes of the elements that are being introduced into the environment is curious, and of course, everything serves as a "trap" to attract the female. Ethology is really a fabulous science. Some years ago I read in an excerpt from the EIBL-EIBESFELDT book, a mating ritual of a species of bird very similar to what is presented here. I am not a biologist, but if I were, I would dedicate myself to studying animal behavior because I see many similarities between ours and that of animals. Thank you for your comment.
@@issuartefulI am originally a Chemist, birds attracted me to Nature and practiced empirical Ethology for some time, behavior of wildlife is absolutely fascinating, there is a reason for everything, there is a lot people had to learn, especially from social insects, shame they not care, or understand, ignorance and stupidy reigns supreme, aboriginal communities understood perfectly well when the world was just a few million people and well balanced. The final is obvious.
3:04 Big time rejection
Remember those famous philosophers...The Rolling Stones: “you can’t always get what you want” 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
debby smash
This looks like the same exact next as one of the nests in the BBC spy cam video. I see many of the same exact items arranged in the same places. This must be footage shot during the making of that video.
closinginonclosure. No spy cam, no BBC, it is Ferraro, this bower-location has not been filmed by them, I wish I was hired by BBC but not, I have no sponsors, everything I do is financed by myself with very scarce resources, grasping with my fingernails, do not do this for the money but for the love of Nature.
@@CarloFerraro Have you seen the BBC spy cam video? The nests and items in it look very similar.
closinginonclosure . If you really see the exact clips is because they bough them from a footage distributor, what about the sound?
@@CarloFerraro What? I never saw I saw "the exact same clips". That's not at all with I said. I said the nest and items in it looked similar. The exact same blue bottle ring. The same blue bottle cover with the white pop up tip, and other items look the same in your video as well as the BBC video.
Watch this video. This is the one I'm talking about czcams.com/video/ihcHLbgaWbg/video.html
@@CarloFerraro Same exact blue ring. Same blue spoons. Same blue bottle top with white pop up cap. I'm not saying it's the same footage in both videos. It's obviously shot on a different camera and different angles, but the nest looks very similar.
he has everything, but he forgot the female, viagra.......there blue..
ben: ALLSH AKBAR!
Jordan B. Peterson brought me here.
welcome
bitchs lov blu
So all that hard work boils down to 3 seconds of pleasure? Pf thank god we humans aren't THAT stupid...
Well then maybe it wasn’t meant for pleasure. It is a means of survival of the species. This is a beautiful display of what was the intended purpose. Don’t you think we humans abuse that right we have?
karen