Bowerbird
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...Ptilonorhynchidae, native to Australia and New Guinea, which build, for courtship display, a bower of sticks or grasses. Usually the males...attract a female and probably has no other function than for the courtship performance. After mating has taken place in the bower...