{"id":31526,"date":"2014-05-09T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oneearth-oneocean.com\/2014\/05\/09\/plastic-land-birds\/"},"modified":"2014-05-09T12:46:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T10:46:00","slug":"plastic-land-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oneearth-oneocean.com\/en\/seabirds-en\/2014\/plastic-land-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic (land) birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><a href=\"http:\/\/plasticisadrug.blogspot.com.au\/2014\/04\/plastic-birds.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/plasticisadrug.blogspot.com.au\/2014\/04\/plastic-birds.html<\/a>\n\n28 April 2014\n\nPlastic (land) birds\n\nWe have a flock of Satin Bowerbirds who live around us. They're shy,\nclever birds. You should see them go for our strawberries in summer!\nThey're attracted to foods in that colour spectrum. I guess before the\narrival of whites they may have gone for such foods as the native\nblueberry or lilli pillis.\n\nThe male is glossy black and a bit larger than a pigeon. The female and\njuveniles are olive and brown. The male builds a bachelor pad - a bower\n- to lure chicks, er. I mean, female birds. If he can get her there, he\nshows her his collection of bright blue things (which is a bit like a\nBarry White vinyl record collection for us). He does a sexy dance for\nher, and then they are married in the bird way and have kids. I don't\nknow whether they're monogamous, but there's only one bower on our\nproperty, and probably 30 birds, so..... hmmm, sounds like a bit of a\nplayer to me.\n\nAs a kid, I remember seeing a bower and it was all blue foil milk bottle\ntops (from the glass milk bottle days) and blue pegs. Now, it's all\nmanner of plastic crap. However, I did recently see a passionflower down\nthere, lying just at the edge. How wonderful an all natural bower must\nhave looked! I don't believe Aboriginal people had any kind of blue\ndyes, mainly clay and ochres. So the birds would probably have used\nberries and flowers only.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/plasticisadrug.blogspot.com.au\/2014\/04\/plastic-birds.html 28 April 2014 Plastic (land) birds We have a flock of Satin Bowerbirds who live around us. They&#8217;re shy, clever birds. You should see them go for our strawberries in summer! They&#8217;re attracted to foods in that colour spectrum. I guess before the arrival of whites they may have gone for such foods as the native blueberry or lilli pillis. The male is glossy black and a bit larger than a pigeon. The female and juveniles are olive and brown. The male builds a bachelor pad &#8211; a bower &#8211; to lure chicks, er. I mean, female birds. If he can get her there, he shows her his collection of bright blue things (which is a bit like a Barry White vinyl record collection for us). He does a sexy dance for her, and then they are married in the bird way and have kids. I don&#8217;t know whether they&#8217;re monogamous, but there&#8217;s only one bower on our property, and probably 30 birds, so&#8230;.. hmmm, sounds like a bit of a player to me. As a kid, I remember seeing a bower and it was all blue foil milk bottle tops (from the glass milk bottle days) and blue pegs. Now, it&#8217;s all manner of plastic crap. However, I did recently see a passionflower down there, lying just at the edge. How wonderful an all natural bower must have looked! I don&#8217;t believe Aboriginal people had any kind of blue dyes, mainly clay and ochres. 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