Bowerbirds in an Australian city use a range of human items—from glass and plastic to banknotes and even a pair of ...

NOVA: I've heard that you have used robotic female bowerbirds. Why? Borgia: One of my students, Gail Patricelli, has just gotten a paper accepted at Nature that describes how she has used a robotic ...

Early results showed Peru's razor-tight presidential runoff Sunday remained too close to call, with four-time candidate Keiko ...

There’s a bowerbird building a bower in my backyard, so this year I’m on Team Bowerbird It has been a warm start to spring, and my neighbourhood has been absolutely overrun by a mob of rowdy, horny, ...

Researchers from the University of Exeter say bowerbirds in Australian cities are using human items to impress their mates.

Male bower birds boast an architectural prowess, it is true. They also have a discerning eye when it comes to the color palette for their homes. It turns out that if that weren't enough, these birds ...

Forget Chip and Joanna Gaines, bowerbirds are the real home renovation stars! These incredible avian artists have a keen eye for color and are masters of interior design, spending countless hours ...

It is said that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, but bowerbirds have turned refuse into an aphrodisiac, stealing ...

SINCE the year 1840, when Gould communicated to the Zoological Society an account of their extraordinary “runs,” as they are locally called, the Bower-Birds of Australia and Papua have always ...

A rambunctious bowerbird youth has been constructing his bower a metre from where Guardian Australia data and interactive editor Nick Evershed's kids jump on the trampoline. The kids have been rapt, ...