another nuchal crest
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The juvenile’s feathers are more fluffy and look more disordered here. Actually, mango is covered in squashed mango too, so s/he looks a bit more bedraggled than usual. In this detail of under the tail the more obvious barring of juveniles can be clearly seen
Here I was testing to what extent bowerbirds would steal objects from other bowers. This container of green glass nuggets was placed equidistant between bowers 5, 12 and 4 (which was quite close to bower 12). The bower 12 bird took many of the nuggets. In the end two nuggets were moved from bower
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