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bowerbird
noun
bow·er·bird ˈbau̇(-ə)r-ˌbərd 
: any of a family (Ptilonorhynchidae) of passerine birds of Australia and New Guinea in which the male builds a chamber or passage arched over with twigs and grasses, often adorned with bright-colored objects, and used especially to attract the female
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web In the wrong hands, this approach might have yielded 21 hodgepodges, but Mr. Preston uses it so deftly that each chapter is like the seductive arrangement of some clever Papuan bowerbird. 
Ben Downing, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018 Among the missing skins were rare and precious quetzals and cotingas, from Central and South America; and bowerbirds, Indian crows and birds of paradise that Alfred Russel Wallace had shipped over from New Guinea. Franz Lidz, Smithsonian, 21 Mar. 2018 The male bowerbird spends most of his life trying to create a bower that will draw in his mate. National Geographic, 15 May 2016 In bowerbirds, for example, females have used choice preferences to make males less aggressive and more amenable. Michael Forsberg, National Geographic, 18 June 2017 This is shown in bowerbirds: Females receive dramatic and even violent displays because those displays are stimulating and because the females can keep their autonomy intact. Michael Forsberg, National Geographic, 18 June 2017 If ducks reflect our cultural present, bowerbirds may illuminate both our evolutionary origins and our social future. Richard O. Prum, The New Yorker, 17 May 2017 A few species, such black wheateaters and bowerbirds, are already known to use nest design in courtship displays. Brandon Keim, WIRED, 20 Jan. 2011 See More
Ben Downing, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018 Among the missing skins were rare and precious quetzals and cotingas, from Central and South America; and bowerbirds, Indian crows and birds of paradise that Alfred Russel Wallace had shipped over from New Guinea. Franz Lidz, Smithsonian, 21 Mar. 2018 The male bowerbird spends most of his life trying to create a bower that will draw in his mate. National Geographic, 15 May 2016 In bowerbirds, for example, females have used choice preferences to make males less aggressive and more amenable. Michael Forsberg, National Geographic, 18 June 2017 This is shown in bowerbirds: Females receive dramatic and even violent displays because those displays are stimulating and because the females can keep their autonomy intact. Michael Forsberg, National Geographic, 18 June 2017 If ducks reflect our cultural present, bowerbirds may illuminate both our evolutionary origins and our social future. Richard O. Prum, The New Yorker, 17 May 2017 A few species, such black wheateaters and bowerbirds, are already known to use nest design in courtship displays. Brandon Keim, WIRED, 20 Jan. 2011 See More Word History
First Known Use
1841, in the meaning defined above
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