Male bowerbirds construct elaborately decorated nests, or bowers
Basing their judgment on the fact that different local populations of bowerbirds of the same species build bowers that exhibit different building and decorative styles, researchers have concluded that the bowerbirds' building styles are a culturally acquired, rather than a genetically transmitted, trait
The bowers of one species of bowerbird lack the towers and ornamentation characteristic of the bowers of most other species of bowerbird.