These avians are some regular Fabios, wooing the ladies with spectacular displays of romance. Why do birds dance? Why do some birds do the moonwalk? Can you walk on water if you love someone enough? Then, we play the popular bird dating show, The MATING GAME! With special guest Kimia Behpoornia.

FOOTNOTES:

1. The grebe's beautiful mating dance
2. The grebe's weed dance (heh)
3. The red-capped manakin's moonwalk
4. Lance-tailed manakin wingman dance
5. Blue manakin's boy band dance
6. Snowball the cockatoo's dance moves
7. Sea lion dances
8. Black-bellied bustard cork-popping call
9. Club-winged manakin buzz pop and lock
10. Capuchin bird's bizarre call
11. Willow grouse call
12. White bellbird's record-breaking loud call (warning: loud)
13. Howard the bowerbird dance
14. Frigatebird blows up his neck balloon
15. Kiwi's awkward mating ritual
16. Bald eagle mating spiral
17. Check out the Port Macquarie Koala Hospital

Habanera by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license

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