Artistry, romance and knavery in our garden: it’s the sublime satin bowerbird in #birdoftheyear | Nick Evershed

There's a bowerbird building a bower in my backyard, so this year I'm on Team Bowerbird

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It has been a warm start to spring, and my neighbourhood has been absolutely overrun by a mob of rowdy, horny, young satin bowerbirds. I'm assuming they're mostly juvenile males from the behaviour (hanging out in parks, acting moody, vaping ...) but I'm no ornithologist, so take my observations with a grain of salt.

One of these rambunctious bowerbird youths has been constructing his bower a metre from where my kids jump on the trampoline.

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