Published On Dec 13, 2019
It looks like my mobile phone blue cover was treated by this bird as female, so he performed his dancing and singing. And there was no kookaburras around, so all these sounds are coming from Satin Bowerbird.
[ ... On the arrival of a female, the male Satin Bowerbird leaps into a ritualised display of exaggerated movements, such as strutting and bowing, with wings outstretched and quivering, and accompanied by a variety of mechanical-sounding calls, such as buzzing and rattling interspersed with mimicry. ... ]
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