Imagine having to prove your love through interpretive dance. Many birds exhibit courtship displays as a way of attracting a mate, and for the tooth-billed bowerbird, dancing on stage is the most attractive a male can be.

Filmed by researchers at the Barnes Pikle Nature Refuge in the Wet Tropics rainforest, this footage captures the bird's unique mating behaviours. Unlike some other passerines who build intricate bowers for mating, the tooth-billed bowerbird constructs a simple leafy stage, which they rearrange daily during mating season. Viewers can observe an example of a stage here, along with a sample of the bird's versatile mating call. Bowerbirds are great vocal mimics and can squawk and whistle like other birds.

Known for the distinctive tooth-like serrations on their bills, which give them their name, tooth-billed bowerbirds are a species endemic to Far North Queensland that face the threat of habitat destruction. The tooth-billed bowerbird is monotypic: it has no recognised subspecies. The male in the clip has built himself a singular display court, and now he must attract an audience of one.