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Meanings of courtship display in English

Russian
токование птиц
Portuguese
cortejo sexual
Spanish
cortejo sexual

Communication to start a relationship with someone or to get sexual contact.

        токование птиц
        Usage of courtship display in English
        1
        What I was witnessing was not an unprovoked attack, but a belligerent courtship display.
        The corfu trilogy
        2
        Suddenly it folds back its wings and is plummeting in a fearless courtship display before soaring up again.
        The Guardian
        3
        It was an excellent example of a coloration mark which served a purely advertising purpose; apparently it was part of a courtship display.
        Through the Brazilian Wilderness
        4
        His attempts to impress the female ducks with his plumage and courtship displays have failed.
        BBC
        5
        But, irrespective of their status, males continue to participate in communal courtship displays throughout the winter.
        The Guardian
        6
        These spines are more prominent in males, who can raise them during territorial or courtship displays.
        Wired
        7
        It explains that males gather annually for courtship displays at traditional lek sites, where they jump up and down, and call frantically.
        The Irish Times
        8
        That is, either oxt or oxtr1 mutation in males decreased the number of courtship displays toward novel females, but not toward familiar females.
        Pubmed
        Translations for courtship display