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Satin Bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus) - Female
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Female Satin Bower Bird
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Female Satin Bowerbird
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We got to see its blue-junk bower, too!
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Ptilonorhynchus violaceus (Vieillot, 1816), Satin Bowerbird, Merimbula, NSW, 9 December 2015
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Male and two females
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Male and two females
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Male and two females
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Female
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Female
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through glass and heavy rain
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Photo by Julian Teh
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Female
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typical 6 pass through the yard daily but rarely linger. This bird has discovered the moth bonanza and now parades up and down the veranda ... shot through sliding glass door to the living room.
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a regular morning visitor picking up a beak-full (5-10 June beetles) before heading off to feed a chick(s). Along with her partner, at 12 visits per hr for the first 2 hrs and half that for the next two ... I estimate 250 beetles are taken by this pair alone. Here photographed at the front door mat just under the UV light shortly after sunrise. Add one Grey Shrike-thrush feeding a chick, a juvenile Noisy Miner feeding at the trough without let up (and occasionally venturing into the living room through the front doorway), and 2 Common Mynahs, about 600+ June beetles are devoured by mid-morning. Or roughly a third of what I estimate to be present in recent nights.
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