Borgia: He reuses the bower. Male satin bowerbirds, we know, may mate with 25 different females. One male in one year had 53 copulations. So the bowers are used quite a lot. Stud of studs ...

This behaviour isn’t exclusive to Lotus. The satin bowerbird of Australia loves the colour blue - they’ve been shown to favour blue feathers from other birds, shells, flowers and even butterflies.