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Female bowerbirds do all the work: They build the nest, lay the eggs, care for the young.

From National Geographic • Jun. 18, 2017

Spotted bowerbirds from Australia have precise preferences for the types and colors of materials they use to build bowers, the ornamental structures they use to attract mates.

From Washington Post • Jun. 15, 2017

If ducks reflect our cultural present, bowerbirds may illuminate both our evolutionary origins and our social future.

From The New Yorker • May 17, 2017

Using a different strategy, male bowerbirds build fancy structures to attract females, and competing males will, on the sly, try to wreck them.

From Scientific American • Jul. 26, 2013

Great bowerbirds, which live in Australia, get their name from the elaborate grass structures, or bowers, that the males build to woo prospective mates.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2012