Directory of Ptilonorhynchidae Resources

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Family of birds found in Australia and New Guinea, the bowerbirds and catbirds.

Resources in This Category

• A Short Discussion on How Males Attract Female Birds

  http://petcaretips.net/how-bird-attracts.html
  Describes research into the extent to which female birds choose their mates according to their vocal ability.

• Black-eared Catbird: Ailuroedus melanotis

  http://ibc.lynxeds.com/species/black-eared-catbird-ailuroedus-melanotis
  Videos and photographs of this species provided by the Internet Bird Collection.

• Bowerbird

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowerbird
  Article from Wikipedia on these birds from Australia and New Guinea, their mating behavior, relationships and systematics.

• Bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchidae)

  http://ibc.lynxeds.com/family/bowerbirds-ptilonorhynchidae
  Several short videos and photographs of different species of bowerbird provided by the Internet Bird Collection.

• Green Catbird: Ailuroedus crassirostris

  http://ibc.lynxeds.com/species/green-catbird-ailuroedus-crassirostris
  Several short videos of this species provided by the Internet Bird Collection.

• Green Catbird: Ailuroedus crassirostris

  http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Ailuroedus-crassirostris
  Factsheet with several photographs.

• Multiple Sexual Ornaments in Satin Bowerbirds

  http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/14/4/503
  Article by Stephanie Doucet and Robert Montgomerie on their research into the interrelationship between bower features, plumage coloration, and indicators of male quality in this species.

• Satin Bowerbird: Ptilonorhynchus violaceus

  http://museumvictoria.com.au/forest/animals/bowerbird.html
  Factsheet with photographs of the quite dis-similar male and female birds.

• Sexual Selection in Bowerbirds

  http://www.life.umd.edu/biology/borgialab/
  Research at the Borgia Lab concentrates on understanding the evolution of the complex sexual male displays in the Satin Bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus.

• Spotted Catbird: Ailuroedus melanotis

  http://dl.id.au/g.php?c=1&i=365
  Photograph.

• Tooth-billed Catbird

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooth-billed_Catbird
  Wikipedia article on this Australian bird, Scenopoeetes dentirostris.

• Tooth-billed Catbirds: Scenopoeetes dentirostris

  http://beautyofbirds.com/toothbilledcatbirds.html
  Factsheet with several photographs.

• White-eared Catbird: Ailuroedus buccoides

  http://ibc.lynxeds.com/species/white-eared-catbird-ailuroedus-buccoides
  Several short videos of this bird from the Internet Bird Collection.

 

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