The male weaving the nest (on the left) and the female examining the nest on the right.
The female shows her approval of the male's work by showing her willingness to mate with a horizontal flutter of her wings.
The male and female mating. This whole sequence of behaviors was repeated several times.
The exotic foreign jungle where I was fortunate enough to observe and photograph this ritual was in Grand Rapids, Michigan at the Frederik Meijer
Gardens.
