Argus are also wonderful, and not cliché! But peacocks are spectacular, yes.
Wanted to upload this fast since I got excited. A screenshot of long-tailed macaques mating from my IG post. Alpha male said screw gravity imma parkour my way up…
Beautifully AMAZING!
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Whoa! That’s cool! I never could exactly get pictures of birds mating, but I have seen some gray catbirds! The male raises his head and fluffs out his body! It’s hilarious!
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I wouldn’t call it beautiful exactly, but Lesser Prairie-Chickens can put on an entertaining display at a lek site with their cackling, posturing, foot drumming, and strutting.
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Dusky Grouse (https://youtu.be/3GJJoiZhMY0)
Sandhill Cranes (https://youtu.be/TDvIDjJsEFk)
Wild Turkeys (https://youtu.be/s6OcTCADio4)
Bald Eagles (locking talons and spiraling toward ground)
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Not so much a mating display, more like the opposite: the ascending flight of Coliadine butterflies. When you see two yellow butterflies spiraling upwards, it is a case of an already-mated female evading a would-be suitor.
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As creepy as it might initially sound, there’s absolutely nothing else like the “demon monkey laugh” call of two barred owls in courtship. Imagine a warm summer’s night sitting outside, only the trill of crickets and katydids filling the air, when all of a sudden everything explodes into the most horrifying sound you’ve ever heard…you panic for a brief second, then realize what’s actually making those sounds, and you laugh to yourself and settle back in your chair. Life is just going on as normal.
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I don’t think anyone has mentioned dragonflies/damselflies. They form a heart when paired up. I think part of the beauty of seeing them mating is the realization that they will be more of them in the future.
Here is a pair of American rubyspot damselflies. They aren’t as common as a lot of other ones where I live. You have to find the spots where they along streams. And, even then, there is no guarantee that they will be out where you can see them.
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