The Satin Bowerbird is the world's best known bowerbird. The females and males are blue and black in colour. The males gain their golden adult plummage at six or seven years.
The Satin Bowerbird feeds on ripening fruits.
The Satin Bowerbird lives high up in the canopy of the rainforests in Wet Tropics.
The male Bowerbird can collect different items to make his bower, sometimes objects can be dangerous to them.The Satin Bowerbird collects blue things and milk bottle tops, which can be dangerous.
The Satin Bowerbird builds the largest of bowers, which is made up of towers of sticks, up to three metres tall. The males spend the breeding season calling and showing their bowers to attract a mate. Females will then build a nest in a tree and lay one or two eggs. After the eggs hatch the females will raise their young alone.