Word: bowerbirds
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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Sighting the fabled bowerbird...
What he had seen was a yellow-fronted gardener bowerbird (Amblyornis flavi-frons). Though New York's American Museum of Natural History has two skins and the British Museum one (preserved since 1895), no Westerner had ever laid eyes on live specimens before, let alone observed their elaborate courtship ritual...
...observer," says Roger Tory Peterson, noted ornithologist-artist. "But Diamond seems credible, and, knowing New Guinea, I am not surprised by his boat trouble." According to Donald Bruning, curator of birds at the Bronx Zoo, Diamond is "one of the half-dozen people most qualified to identify this bowerbird...
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