#Canberra region daytrip last Wednesday, took No.1 and No.3 out and about, round trip to Tharwa for ice cream, stopped in at Casurina Sands at the Cotter, and found one of these guys in the brush trying to woo a girly with a blue bottle top he'd found.. must be young as he was still Green grey with etched plumage.. and in that heat.. keen as. https://canberrabirds.org.au/our-birds/canberra-garden-birds/bowerbird/
Bowerbird - Canberra Birds

Family Ptilonorhynchidae Bowerbirds are unique to Australia and Papua-New Guinea. There are ten species of bowerbird found in Australia, generally in the tropics, but with some species extending …

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