Courtship is when male birds try to find female birds that they can mate with. Male birds do many different things to find a male. some males show female their colors. The male frigate bird pushes his red thoat out like a ballon. The blue-footed booby show his big blue feet. Songbirds sing for thier females, and the bower bird build a special place with twings and puts bright colored things in it so that it looks pretty.