There are two main types of bowers. At the start of the mating season, a male builds and decorates a bower to attract female birds. Star nosed moles, Zambian bats, and the Vogelkop bowerbird are just a few of the creature's you'll encounter as the filmmakers take viewers to distant continents, using state-of-the-art filming techniques to drift along with migrating elephants, soar through the sky with monarch butterflies, and witness a mating battle (also known as a "heat run") between male humpback whales. The bird is called burung pintar (meaning literally smart bird) by local people.I have seen the bowerbird since 2010 when I guide tourists on birding tours to Arfak mountains. It is an avenue built from sticks and twigs and stick, woven into walls that run north to south. The drab Vogelkop gardener bowerbird builds one of the largest and most elaborately decorated of all bowers: a hutlike structure, 5 feet high and over 6 feet in diameter.
Bower of a Vogelkop bowerbird (Amblyornis inornata) decorated with natural and man-made objects. Vogelkop Bowerbird is a species of bird that lives in higher elevation forest of bird's head region in West Papua. Clifford Frith and Dawn Frith Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020 Text last updated February 20, 2013 Platforms at each end are decorated with mostly blue objects, such as flowers, berries and feathers.
The most notable characteristic of bowerbirds is their extraordinarily complex courtship and mating behaviour, where males build a bower to attract mates. But that’s not all – it turns out that bowerbirds are very particular about the type and arrangement of objects they place in and around their bowers. Anting, which involves the use of live ants to anoint feathers, is rarely observed with wild birds, but tooth-billed, golden, and satin bowerbirds have been recorded doing this.
One clade of bowerbirds build so-called maypole bowers that are constructed by placing sticks around a sapling; in some species these bowers have a hut-like roof.