Crested Bowerbirds - Crested Bowerbirds

Japanese: カンムリニワシドリ属 - かんむりにわしどりぞく
Crested Bowerbirds - Crested Bowerbirds

…Similar breeding behavior is also known in the Sanford's Bowerbird Archboldia papuensis (one genus, one species). (2)The second stage is seen in the Amblyornis genus (four species, including the Brown Bowerbird (illustration) and the Crested Bowerbird) and the Golden Bowerbird Prionodura newtoniana (one species, one genus). Each male uses a young tree standing vertically on the forest floor and builds various gazebo-like structures around the tree by weaving together dead leaves and twigs, moss, lichen, etc., or by mixing these materials with saliva and attaching them to the tree. The height of these structures is about 1 to 3 meters, and the shape of the structure and the number of young trees used vary depending on the species, from one to two. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to the Crested Bowerbird genus is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…これと類似の繁殖行動はサンフォードニワシドリArchboldia papuensis(1属1種)にも知られている。(2)第2の段階はカンムリニワシドリ属Amblyornis(チャイロニワシドリ(イラスト),カンムリニワシドリなど4種)と1属1種のオウゴンニワシドリPrionodura newtonianaにみられるもので,各雄が林床上の垂直に立っている若木を利用し,その若木のまわりに草木の枯葉や小枝,蘚類(せんるい),地衣類などを編み合わせたり,これらの材料を唾液に混ぜて付着して,あずまやのような形のさまざまな構築物をつくる。この構築物の高さは1~3m程度で,構築物の形や用いる若木の数は1本であったり2本であったり,種によって異なっている。…

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