Tap dancing songbirds Blue-capped cordon-bleu

For the first time, researchers captured on film the rapid step-dancing performed by male and female Uraeginthus cyanocephalus (blue-capped cordon-bleu) as part of their courtship displays. Credit: Tap dancing birds: the multimodal mutual courtship display of males and females in a socially monogamous songbird Nao Ota, Manfred Gahr & Masayo Som Scientific Reports, doi: