Rainbow Lorikeets
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- The rainbow lorikeet has a heart of gold and an insatiable will to dominate. This time we'll find out how this humble parrot took over a nation and won us over in the process.
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Most nature docs will just say "this species is native to australia" and completely neglect that australia is a massive place where native animals can become pests elsewhere. I admire how thoroughly you explain everything in these videos while keeping it entertaining! Keep up the good work
Yeah they don't seem to realise that Australia is a continent with many diverse ecosystems and climates, separated by deserts, mountains and seas.
Also there are subspecies of rainbows in Indonesia, New Guinea, the Solomons, Vanuatu and the New Hebrides.
Same goes with laughing kookaburras. Most WA locals don't realise they are introduced and outcompete the native kingfishers.
We are the “ pests” ! We intrude their world.
@@AnneMarieNicol
tell that to my mad rainbow lorikeet "ARky" (almost road kill)
Trichoglossus haematodus.
A well travelled bird that couldn't fly.
Walk, car, boat, bus, train
but no plane !
Mad, he liked good loud music and getting almost as drunk as me.
My aunt has a pet lorikeet. His name is Paulie and he likes to imitate people. He imitates calling the dog, phone calls, and when my aunt smokes a bong, he not only imitates the sound of the bong, but also specifically imitates her cough afterward. He also imitates her laugh even when it devolves into coughing.
That comment is pure gold 👏🏻😂 I would love to meet your Aunt and her pet Lorikeet 🫶🏼
I love this 😅
Our son and his fiance also have two of them which the male will initiate everything he hears including the radio conversation of the host, the dishwasher, the microwave and of course the laughter.
Your aunt sounds cool as hell 😎
Your aunt sounds fukin mad
the amount of excitement when I see a new backyard naturalist viddy drops >>>
Same. I check every Sunday night and if there's no new video from this channel, I find myself rewatching the previous ones again.
whats bro pointing to 😭😭😭
stop like begging kid
@@r4gn4r0k69 me when i skip maths class:
As a wildlife carer we used to call these birds "Flying Boltcutters", they'll bite you and then make eye contact and bite harder...scary hard.
The bird:🥰
The bird's call: 👹
Love the Lorikeets
Love these birds. Sitting back with a hot cupper watching these guys stuff around. Weekends are made for it.
That's the sulfer cockatoos, the rainbow lorikeets have sweet calls
And magpie's are the opposite.
Aussie birds in a nutshell
The picture of the lorikeet with a gun got me
My Buddy and his untrustworthy Missus decided to amp up his relationship with me this year. He said, "If I land on you're head, I want sunflower seeds. If I land on your shoulder, I want sunflower seeds and if I land on your screen door and whistle for thirty minutes, I want sunflower seeds." Apparently sunflower seeds are his favourite because if I feed him other seeds, he gives me the bird, (pun intended) and disappears for several days. Picky bloody eater. Awesome job, Darcy ... and the Oscar goes to, The Backyard Naturalist. Yay.
That's a little bit wholesome! Always a pleasure to read your comments Grant
@@the-Backyard-Naturalist Nice to know I have a purpose in life, Darcy; I'll try to up my game for the next Blockbuster Episode of The Backyard Naturalist. I knew I should have poignantly referred to "More Rainbows than a Pride Parade on Acid." Of course, my uping my game means the expectation is on you to exceed all previous endeavours. Where else is my inspiration going to come from? See you in the next one.
Hi Grant, you want to be careful with the sunflower seeds - they're chock full of fats. We "spoiled" our pet galah with them because they were his favourite too, and we nearly lost him. He developed a large lipoma in his lower abdomen which had to be surgically removed, and the vet, after querying his diet, told us about the high fat content of the sunflower seeds. So we keep them to a minimum in his diet now. His fave treat now is brocholli?! 😅😅 All the best from SA. 👍
Broccoli hey? Will be planting some soon and will see if our noisy arsehat likes it
Please consider feeding them fruit and flower blossoms instead. Being fed too many seeds can destroy the delicate 'feather' on their tongues that they use to eat their natural diet; fruits and flower nectar. If their tongues are damaged, they find it harder to survive in the wild.
Threw in every nickname but the flying fruit tingle.
I notice the red, blue and yellow all camouflage well too. When they're feeding on nectar the red and yellow often blends in with flowers and shrubs, and blue with the sky!
My hand raised female rainbow Lorikeet lived for 30 years and had a vocabulary of around 6 / 8 words
They're beautiful little bastards, that's for sure.
they are, and cheeky little bastards at that
Woohoo, another video from our Aussie Attenborough. ❤
My favourite bird in the whole wide world.
‘Their customer-facing parts’ had me cackling
6:25 I'm in QLD, about 3 weeks ago I had to take a Lori to the vet, it wasn't able to fly and wasn't able to walk properly. Still put up a good fight when I put it in the box though, hope the little guy is alright. Doesn't sound good though :(
Ah. Glad they pissed off and didn't hang around my little sparrow feeder, then. I think they dropped in only to cause some biffo. They'd brawl with sparrows and spotted doves like crazy, hardly even go near the feeder, then leave again.
Thanks again for another great video!
They absolutely live for a punch on
Really love these cheeky, noisy Birds! They always come in pairs or massive flocks and they have their own personalities. Oh and the colours and chirps are the best! Thanks for the video! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Thank you! Love your birdy vids :)
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Ah, the rainbow mafia. Another great video :)
That is exactly what my wife and I call them.
I can honestly say that these videos are the best thing I’ve found on UA-cam
Omg dude, cackled at "sorry bro" 🇳🇿❤️🇦🇺
‘One bedroom unit with waterboarding facilities’ omg that was hilarious!
But for real this was really interesting, I had no idea how lorikeets became so prolific!
Yesssss rainbows lets go! My best friend is a rescue rainbow, evil loud abusive angel and i love her.
that's so true they do brighten up my morning on the way to work, I always see a flock hiding in a neighbour's camellia hedge
My dad and I used to feed a pair slices of apples when they kept coming around. Only used to feed them if we were home and they'd only really show up when it rained. Ended up being cool enough with us to jump on my shoulder and we'd always see their babies.
I love your sense of humour in these videos.
No ending of you sitting on a log, chucking a spready? That was the best bit! 😉
They are the star attraction since I put a bird bath in the front yard. Their behaviour and interactions with each other is so hilariously funny to watch.
I’ve seen rainbow lorikeets fight everything from king parrots to even sulphur crested cockatoos, they have short bird syndrome and will fight things many times their size, or screech loudly at them I guess
Yep. Pale-headed and Crimson Rosellas, King Parrots, Galahs, Scaly-Brested Lories, Cockies, Crested Pigeons and Diamond Doves all bow down at the feeder to these little Bonapartes. You pretty well have to take a tennis racquet to the Rainbow Regiments to give everybody a fair crack of the whip.
When I was a kid in the eighties in Melbourne, the only time I saw a lorikeet was in QLD tourist brochure’s, we moved to QLD and got to see many of them, in 06 moved back to Melbourne and too my surprise here they were living in Melbourne, I guess it was the trees as you mentioned, I thought it was the weather!
Fuck yeah Lorikeets.
Their camouflage power amazes me considering how colourful they are. I've heard a dozen of them screeching in a eucalypt without being able to spot one unless it flies away from the tree for a bit.
My local lorikeets came daily for their [hand feeding] at Surfers [table cleaned daily]. Here in Canberra we have more cockatoos & galahs.
The feeding hierarchy in Surfers was 1. Lorikeets, 2. Wattle birds, 3. Noisy Miners, 4. the Peewee lol.
They are the F18’s of bird world, rocketing through the neighbourhood.
'Sky high tie-dies' - beautiful!
Umbrella tree nectar gets them drunk. I know it's probably not good for them, but drunken lorikeet brawls are hilarious.
They used to get into the nectar from the trees outside the Cairns Council Offices in the city when we used to holiday at the beaches many moons ago. And yep, it was a toss-up between the Palm Cove Lifesavers and the Boids as to who had the best drunken parties.
the OneyPlays reference was a nice touch
Their plummage looks amazing under black light. Most birda and flowers ahve a difderent colour when on Ultra Violet and Infra Red. Insects, in particular, see the world so differently from us. I wish had tetrachromatic vision. That would be wild!!
Damn fine video pal.
I meet one up close in a tree the other week, very kindly let me take really close up pictures of him!
Beautiful mongrels.
I subbed purely because you said they were rarer than eshay with a valid train ticket. Gold!
Love these guys on my block in the Adelaide Hills _ P.S, that beer with the pie floater should be a South Aussie Coopers Ale!
🦜 thank you 🙏🏼
I absolutely love our continent's gaggle of feathered chaos demons and the Rainbow Lorikeet is no exception. I actually like waking up to their cacophony in the morning.
The combo of dry humour and information is perfect!! Keep up the good work!
oh god, rainbow lorikeets are sooo loud. in certain urban places there will be only a couple of gum trees where they gather and even standing NEAR THEM is enough to make your ears hurt. you can't even see any of them because they camoflage so well, even though judging by the sound of it there must be hundreds! love these birds though, they're very sociable and don't seem to be as scared of people as some others are.
That was awesome!
Love the use of Zachs scream hahaha
as someone who lives on a pretty big lot of land with native trees in it, i can confirm that Lorikeets scare the shit out of the magpies in my yard just by walking up to them.
Awesome content, so many colloquialisms 😂. I wonder how much someone from OS would understand? Love it!
When it comes to their status in New Zealand, Rainbow Lorikeets did indeed establish a population here, namely in Auckland if I remember correctly.
The population was unfortunately exterminated though, which is due to legit worry that they could have become yet another invasive species to add to the list, and that they were seen as likely vectors of certain parrot specific diseases that could threaten our native parrots.
As lovely as lorikeets are, it is perhaps for the best that they never establish here (though it would be awesome if we had a native lorikeet!).
Eastern Rosellas are a widespread introduced species in NZ's North Island though, and also have a separate population around the city of Dunedin in the South Island. The classic Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo also has some feral populations here and there in NZ, plus Galahs have feral populations on some of the islands near-ish to Auckland.
You should do one on our most dangerous spiders because most people don't realise it's more likely for you to die from being struck by lightning this year than to die from a spider bite.
That's weird. Just saw a vid on YT today, and the guy was struck by lightning through his kitchen window. Don't touch the taps, the fridge, the shower taps, the metal on the windows. There's nowhere to hide from lightning anymore....
I've experienced a few wild lorikeets with the paralysis syndrome, usually on the first day of encountering them they are unable to properly fly anymore, can tell something is wrong when approaching the lorikeet because it can only either hop away on the ground like a kangaroo or it starts to try and climb up a nearby tree. On first day they still have some strength to fight back but by 2nd day their health has deteriorated rapidly not able to move much and eyes keep closing like they are sleeping. The ones I've met with the condition don't live much more then a few days to a week at most but they would of likely caught this sickness a long while before, and since the lorikeets try not to show their illness it's hard to spot the sick ones until it's too late.
I notice some wild lorikeets that close their eyes in same way, it's not a sleeping type, cause when they close their eyes they still twitch and not relaxed. The Lorikeet group will isolate and avoid this sick one, maybe this is early symptoms to the sickness
Coor mate.. yous forgot to add they're pissheads and can be found blacked out in your local park after down'n a few steamy fermented dates.. not an unknown practice amoung the more colourful crowd.. especially in some of the inner city parks😊
Love your commentary bro. Super descriptive ,👍
We have two families, up to six birds, that drop in from nearby bushlands...they are all feisty little buggars who take no sh1t from much larger species like Kookas, Maggies and Sulphur Cresteds, all of which also regularly drop in.
It is amazing to listen to the chatter between them when they are bouncing around looking for food, it never stops.
How could you omit that just like they typical Aussie, they get drunk off fermented fruit! What a missed opportunity! 😅🍹
love your channel mate. great work
6:30 for anyone concerned the paralysis syndrome isn't terminal, I teared up on the first watch seeing some snuggled up "smiley" little guys who may never fly or see their partner again
“As rare an eschay valid train ticket “ 😂
I was interested in the evolution of their colouring, and apparently it's a form of "mosaic evolution." Their colouring evolved at different points and independently of each other. So the green is for camouflage (I think this is their OG colour), and the other colours help identify their species amongst other lorikeets. Some of their colours are invisible to humans, and all their markings make up 1/3 of colours birds can see.
We call them The Street Tuffs - they bully literally EVERY bird in our back yard.
Keep ‘em coming. This series can’t end.
Being as a Queenslander myself, I genuinely was unaware that these lorikeets in our state are getting left paralysed.💔😢😭
Beautiful. Thankyou.🥰
I live on the the Northern Rivers NSW where we used to have 1000's of these beautiful noisy birds. The last couple of years a disease has wiped most of them out. Slowly they are making a recovery. Funniest thing when they get drunk on the Bottle Brush tree.
We had some perch on our old house's balcony and we called them Heckle and Jeckle, no idea why~
Just come in from watering my garden under a cacophony of NOISE from the blooming Lillli Pilli next door, full of Rainbows !
Lorries love getting drunk.
Dew and rain collects in the throat of some flowers and ferments the nectar and you can see these crazy little bastards getting pissed and arguing the point with each other.
i love 'em
I came here say just what you said but I didn't know the mechanism, thanks.
Another great presentation. Please keep them coming!
Cool thanks mate
I crashed my car leaving the handbreak off last month trying to save a lorikeet stuck in the middle of the road, couldn't fly away. It's nice to get an answer for why it couldn't get away.
Thank you for this information. I don't have any native lorry's around my area but are aware that they are that far away, in a another suburb and only a flight away. They are very pretty but as you say aggressive and somewhat territorial.
Hilarious 😂always look forward to these ❤thank you, from Perth
They compete too successfully with local parrots.As well as crop destructors. Feral pest for WA
Thanks for that. Things I didn’t know. I have some that come to my window because I feed some back yard buddies. I mixture of all types. These Loris are very bossy and let me know when the feed has run out with loud screeches. I make a special mixture with fruit, vegetables and assorted grains as well as rice. Mostly the Currawongs, Australian Minor and Pigeons eat it as well as Crows and other species. They all seem to be healthy. Though the Pigeons who would eat anything tend to be the ones that become unwell with disease. The beak and feather disease is apparent in Sydney Cockatoos and some Corella’s. Very sad that. So feeding platforms are a no. A table could be a platform so hygiene is very important just like your own kitchen.
I have a 5 acre paddock & the Rainie Lollies there eat the mulbery tree grapes before I get a chance to pick them. 😅
We didn't have them till about 30 years ago in SA. Now we also have fruit bats.
Yep. Vegans weren't a thing until recent years either. 😜😉😊
I love watching Australian yt documentary coz I actually understand the slang used to a personal level.
If your actually from australia, you know that you see more of the introduced Indian minor bird than any other bird
One bedroom unit with water boarding facilities.
Sign me up.
I love the Chaos Chickens
Wow. That “soory bru “ was spot on 😑
We found a lorrie who had the paralysis, I named him Honk, it was really sad, all he could do was “honk”
I love seeing the Lorikeets in the yard, no bird should be a pet, unless it has been unable to fly. Sad to see people sellng them on Gumtree.
Yep. What you have locked up you are responsible for 24/7. If you make your living area congenial you will have the enjoyment of a moving feast of nature and can go on holiday any time you like. Odd that folks just stick things up for sale like that. It's a wonder that the local EPA Stormtroopers aren't there smartly checking on the required permits needed for all protected Ozzy Wildlife.
Love the video!
Autistic person whose special interest is birds here, be careful using the term lory and lorikeet interchangeably, because they dare different species/subspecies of bird.
Their common family is Loriini but lories and lorikeets are different subspecies of honeyeaters in the Loriini taxonomy/family.
In behaviour they are basically the same, loud, trouble making jokesters with a pension for property damage. I happen to have a black capped lory myself (Lorius.L.lory if anyone is interested) however here are some fun facts of how they are different to one another as they are different types of bird!
Lorikeets are generally a lot smaller around 75-150ish grams depending on locality and species, they also have long thin tails and shorter more rounded beaks.
While lories clock in at around 200-280ish grams (which is a lot bigger when it comes to avian species as they are very light to begin with) similar in size to a small galah. They are also a lot rounder bodied, have very shot and stubby squared off tail and more elongated beaks.
As far as I am aware, however I could be wrong, lories are only found in New Guinea/Indonesia and the adjacent islands. Whereas lorikeets are found in many different places, including Australia, partially because they are much better suited for longer flights, where lories tend to rely a lot of jumping branch to branch if that is a option.
As a bird nerd just thought I would through some commonly overlooked information everyone’s way! If you want any other facts about these guys or really any other species of parrot/bird I will be happy to chat, I have raised, rehabilitated or obsessed over many species of bird and would be happy to reply to anyones questions to the best of my ability!
Last note, don’t get them as pets, they are even worse to keep then parrots and parrots make bad enough pets (coming from someone who owns both) you need to dedicate your life to them and they will still bite you, cost you thousands and brake your ears and your house. If you want a parrot, you most likely don’t, you actually want a pigeon. They are domesticated and are a much better option so I encourage you to look into them first!
Another great video mate... looking forward to seeing the next one and learning something new 🙂
Lorikeets like to eat from our guava tree at the back.
They do leave mess lol
Thanks for,the upload, love your work!
God I love this channel
Good video
They taste great too
I used to love these birds as a kid what with the colours and all but now there just meh I work outside a lot so I tend to see and hear them everywhere.
One thing I didn’t realise until I was older was that they weren’t the sweet little birbs I thought they were but actually nectar induced psychos that bully and bite and fight anyone and anything including themselves.
Great vid as always.👍🏼
nice and usefull info thanks
Just watched this with my two toddlers. I'll be in trouble when they start to understand the jokes
man i fucking love every one of ur uploads please make more content !!! L:D
ever been bombed by a Lorikeet ball? I was walking down the property when there was an unholy cacophony of screeching and flapping overhead in the trees. I stopped to see what was going on, when suddenly a soccer ball size clump of Lorikeets came tumbling down, clawing and biting and screeching, almost right on top of me. They landed on the ground at my feet, the ball broke up and they flew away, must have been 8 or so of them. I later asked that well known ornithologist, Professor Laurie Keats, if this was typical behaviour, and he replied that it was not unknown for parrots to become so intent on, as it is known in ornithological circles, "beating the crap out of each other" that they become unaware of their surroundings, sometimes to the detriment of their safety, and that of those nearby - I was certainly in need of a Bex and a good lie down, I can tell you!
A few years ago I came across one sitting in our wire fence. I went close to get a photo then realised something was wrong. It was having balancing issues. It was so weak I was able to pick it up and put it in a cardboard box. I rang the wildlife carers but before they could arrive it died. I think it was paralysis disease. So sad.
I thought this was a cooking video? Anyway, these little buggers fly through my backyard doing about 80kph sometimes only inches from my head.
Chaos emeralds 😂😂
I had a pet one as a child in the 90’s. I swear he thought he was human 😂
A mate had an ancient White Cockatoo in a cage by his shed for many years. Every time he went to get the Toyota out it would crank it over for him. 🙃😊
I've always liked Rainbow Lorikeets (I'm from NSW it's okay), but this video may have made me love them