Check out Australia Zoo’s Satin Bowerbird

Crikey, they don’t get much more majestic than our Satin Bowerbirds! You can spot these striking birds all day long in Grace’s Bird Garden. Keep your camera handy because they are a sight to see.

Satin Bowerbirds are renowned for decorating their bowers with all manner of blue objects collected nearby. This can include a random assortment, such as feathers, flowers, seed pods and butterfly wings. They will even use man-made objects they believe fit the colour theme of their bower. This is done by the male to attract a mate. How romantic!

They are found along the eastern and south eastern coast line of Australia, and prefer wetter forests. The male Satin Bowerbirds are easy to recognize and have a beautiful glossy blue-black plumage, a blue-white bill and a violet iris. This only develops at the age of seven, and until then they look very similar to females!

These birds are the most common type of Bowerbirds found in Australia, and are a species of least concern. Woo-hoo!