He Delivers Flowers: Vogelkop Bowerbird

Witness an unassuming male deliver fresh flowers to his deep forest architectural wonder. More at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s All About Fancy Males interactive feature: What’s happening: Why is this Vogelkop Bowerbird (Amblyornis inornata) delivering flowers? Rather than being showy himself, he’s decorating the twig hut he’s built with carefully chosen lawn ornaments. This impressive structure is not a nest. It’s a bower—constructed and maintain