Australia's Most Common Birds
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2023
- This time we're looking at the 15 most common birds in Australia (excluding water birds). This country has such amazing array of beautiful birds that are so commonplace and we sometimes take them for granted. Let's find out what makes each of them unique and have a sensible chuckle along the way.
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Fun fact: Every day hundreds of Lorikeets fly into Silverwater Gaol and land on the caged windows of the cells. Prisoners get 2 small single serve jams every day, and many of them save them for the Lorikeets. They’re one of the highlights of many people’s days!
Very wholesome
So wholesome... criminals are just the sweetest guys
@@jerryboics9550People can be flawed, but still have humanity. Sure, they're in prison for a reason, but we're talking about a bunch of people that choose to save their jam for the birds rather than enjoying one of the few sweet parts of their daily meal themselves.
they should get a ⅓rd cup of peas or some grapes to share with the birds, can't imagine jam every day is good for the fellas
@@jerryboics9550Not really meant to be a wholesome story lol. Just an interesting one. I find it more ironic tbh. The tables have turned, and instead of humans watching birds in cages, it’s the other way around.
"High on nectar and out for blood" is an excellent description of a noisy miner.
...makes them sound very intoxicated...
They also farm psylids, and can kill off areas of forest.
They gang up on other birds, possums, etc
Terrible pests. They kill all smaller native birds in the area.
My twin and I rescued a crow that was trapped in our disused chimney in Sydney. We could hear him in there scrabbling and calling out, so we fired up the pop-off wheel and cut some bricks out. By the time we had organised that, he was just about dead from lack of water. So he just opened his mouth and said "Farrrrk" quietly when I picked him up. We gave him water and put him in a quiet room, in a box for a couple of hours. My bro went to work, and I walked in to see him sitting up on the back of a chair, and JUST LIKE THAT we had the most calm and companionable pet bird. I walked over to him with some little bits of meat and more water, and he took it from me without even slightly flinching. We named him Big Bird, because ACTUALLY they are fairly big.
He had hurt his wing muscles fighting in the cramped chimney so he was obviously too hurt to use his wings for some days, wouldn't even spread them.
But right from the first day, he would hop up where you would go tap a perch, he would call with a seeming happiness back to you if you spoke to him, and he was quite happy to have you scratch all around his head. He never pecked people or damaged anything. You could offer him your hand and say "Wanna hop up?" and he either would straight away, or he would literally make a negative noise, he had a "No" noise. You would play a trick on him, like have a piece of biscuit and pretend to throw it to him, and he didn't appreciate that so he would sit straight up and yell his "NO !" word at you.
I brought a ping pong ball and taught him tricks and to play fetch, and he would bobble along quick as light and grab it and throw it straight back to you, as good as a child.
The only problem with him wasn't really a problem because I ALSO woke up at dawn every morning. My girlfriend hated him and my bros girlfriend wouldn't even think of coming into the house.
Eventually, after maybe a month, his wings got strong, and he could fly circuits around our living room and kitchen, so one day we opened the verandah doors and he hopped up on the rail, looked back at us, and flew off.
Didn't see him for quite a while, then in a park in the suburb, that same year, he flew down and sat on my brothers shoulder and let him scratch Birds head.
NOW THIS IS CONTENT❤
These guys are remarkably smart and have been known to remember those who rescued them. My friend works at an abbitoir and when I drop in to buy my dog meat she and I feed the ravens with scraps of dog meat that fall out of our bags. My friend is indigenous so has a natural affinity with the wildlife she's an older lady. I popped in a few weeks ago and she had this collection of small rocks sitting on the counter (where I pay). I said what's this you paying me for my hard work 😂. Joke of course and she said *"nah sis the ravens have been dropping lil presents every week I been collecting them to show ya"*
Wonderful birds I've always loved them.
Wonderful story. Thank you. 🙏🏻😊
@@docbainl9504 Yep, I have always loved the crows and magpies. It is funny how they have different personalities too.
@@jackiepayne7843 🥰
They say crows and magpies remember a face for years and somehow tell other crows and magpies about your face. On that day you got whitelisted on the murder of crows.
Finally a UA-cam video on Australian wildlife that doesn't make me want to fall asleep with its voiceover. You're funny as hell
I know Kookaburras are the stereotype but the soundscape of Australia in my mind has always been dominated by the Raven and Magpie calls to me. Especially the Raven.
I absolutely adore the way ravens lose enthusiasm mid sentence!
we had a small bush across from our house (really just a park) and almost every morning i was woken up by the old kookies, made me feel like i was in some vast paradise where the bush kept going on and on
Where I live the area is mostly dominated my magpies, ravens, wagtails, pigeons, larks, mynas, wattlebirds, seagulls, pelicans, ibises, ducks, galahs, lorikeets and the occasional currawong and kookaburra.
There's cockatoos where my sister lives, used to see them when leaving.
FAAAAaaarken crows.
@@s-c..AAHR! AAHR? AAAAahhhhrr... 😮💨
As an Australian bird, i agree with this 100%
But which bird??
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She's just some chick...
@@redplanet7163 ok
Not an ibis I hope...
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I honestly think one of the most iconic bird calls is the Bush Stone Curlew. Creepy as hell to hear at night, but also the most hilarious birds to find during the day. They're so weird, I love them.
I’ve heard of a Curlew but I’ve never seen one. I have to look it up.
They are an absolute delight and one of the highlights of a holiday north. Love their log legs with the knobbly knees and the look in their eyes that says "I've seen things, pal"
It is so goddamn creepy. Nighttime is not fun
you saw BBC the secret lives of are urban birds? havent you?
They also love running on the road at night when they see headlights
The sulphur Crested Cockatoo is LITERALLY me
WE WANT MORE. These videos are great! I got the whole family in on this one. The kids loved it.
Wholesome!
Yes! The algorithm just pointed me in your direction, so if you haven’t already, I’d love to see more on the parrots and corvids. And the fairy wren.
Subscribing… now.
Water birds next maybe, cormorants, pelicans the notorious chip thief the Seagull@@the-Backyard-Naturalist
Your script writing and production is insanely good! Waiting for a dedicated bin chicken video
_yes_
Just remember the Ibis is the only bird that comes in flocks and eats large volumes of snails..... they get a bad rap in the city but are a farmers friend
Definitely need a bin chicken video!
I laughed when he said they were wetland birds and said "nah, they're bin chickens. More commonly seen in bins and tips" 😂😂
All hail the mighty bin chicken! Ruler of Australian school yards.
I work at a school and it’s funny. After school, the Ibis has learnt to wait until 3:30, when most of the kids have gone home, to appear to eat food scraps or get into the inevitable pile of lunchboxes left behind by the kids.
About 50 of them appear to assist the gardener and cleaner each day.
If you haven't, try looking for the Australian wedge tail eagle. They are such pretty birds
Sadly, we don't see enough of them! I know a couple of spots in tassie where you can see them fairly often, one is close to where I live which is nice. Always awesome to see one, especially if you can get close enough to see
Around the Armidale and Walcha region you often see them. They're beautiful but honestly intimidating by how huge they are. My monkey brain would often be like "yeah that would eat my baby"
When I lived in Kyogle, I'd see them often. They killed my prize rooster and would give me a flyover when I'd walk in the paddock with my dog... I presume they were checking the dog out as a possible meal. I've even seen a pair with their talons interlocked and falling out of the sky in what I presume was a mating ritual. They are plentiful in the northern NSW area, and there was one occasion where I counted seven in the sky at the same time.
There's plenty flying around Mt Oxley just east of Bourke. They like to feast on the feral cats there.
@@moorspede That depends on where you are.
The two funniest things that I've ever seen at my mum's place in Mt Crosby were
1) two crested doves fighting by running around in circles are trying to slap each other with a wing.
2) a cockatoo landing on a fern branch so that it could see what was going on in the lounge room and it immediately snapping under its weight.
We had Crows that nicked dry food from our dogs bowl, then they'd repeatedly whack each piece on the shed roof before leaving it there to nick another piece. They did it every morning, there'd be dozens of Good-O's on the roof (the Crows learned if they waited till it rained their Good-O's got nice & soft to eat).
its a crested pigeon not a crested dove
We have local ‘Cockies’ in Adelaide and they are hilarious!
As an Australian who loves birds, this was truly a video that exists
Your just like me!! I love all birds, especially robins, they’re so cute!!
The existentialism is unnerving
as a European I adore the sounds of Aussie birds. That's the first thing I notice gone missing whenever I have to leave, so thank you for these videos!!
Do you like how galah translates to an insult?
My MIL says the same! She knows she's in Aus by all the bird sounds!
@@greybooch4577it means your acting like a knuckle head 😂, galahs are the biggest numbnuts they love wrestling or swinging upset down, so acting like a galah means acting like an idiot.
Now that’s peak Aussieman!
The black cockatoos with their whistley calls to each other ripping trees and cones to shreds in sydney were my favourite when I lived in Aus
It’s 7:30 in the morning and already my Aussie bird interactions include being woken by my first Eastern Koel of the season at 5am. A King Parrot arrived for breakfast and proceeded to stare in my bedroom window and whistled loudly his order. When I went out to introduce him to the new feeder in the bottlebrush he ended up being ambushed by a pair of rainbow lorikeets. Thanks for the video I can’t get enough of our native species though my favourite is the spangled drongo most definitely because of its name 😂
Not only that, drongos are rollers because they roll in flight like a WW2 fighter. Observe their flight closely. Few bird species roll in flight.
My dad was a truckie and would tell me about times he’d see Galah’s swaying around on the side of highways, pissed as parrots.
They would swoop down to consume grain which would spill from Interstate semis and it wasn’t uncommon for a bunch of spilled barley grains to make contact with water and gradually ferment on the side of the road so that by the time the Galahs have had a gutful the fermented grain would turn into alcohol in their stomachs and they’d be hammered before they knew it.
They do that all the time with rotting fruit.
@@UnitSe7en I’d be one of those birds for sure. ‘Bradles is strung out on rotten plums again’ *hic*
Thanks for clearing up the difference between the _crested_ pigeon and the _topknot_ pigeon. I've been mistakenly calling crested pigeons "topknots" for years, and was recently surprised to see topknot pigeons listed as a disperser of some of Eastern Australia's larger rainforest fruits. Now it makes sense.
I've always called them Crested Doves.🤔
always called them top notch pigeons lol
Crested pigeons get call topknots in Queensland, another bird Queenslander's name swap is the grey crowned babbler which often gets called an apostle bird
they are squeeky wings just listen to them fly
I call them mohawk birds
We used to live in an area with lots of sulphur crested cockatoos and I loved watching their antics. The wail of the elderly or sickly birds was something else, though! The thing that really surprised us was that if one was killed, the flock would solemnly keep watch over the site for three days.
They are very social birds, I remember a caged one at a remote campground as kids. It was talking to us, and when we left it called out "COME BACK!"
That’s the babies wailing for food. They look full size, but they’re very clumsy and basically sit on a branch wailing until mum gives them a beak full of food. Then they go back to wailing for the next mouthful lol!
This video was a delight.
As a fellow Victorian, I enjoyed learning about and gaining a greater sense of appreciation for a lot of our local bird life!
+1 never knew the variety we have here in Melbourne
Shrubs and garden cover for small birds are the best way to kindly manage the more dominating birds from taking over. The natives get along in my garden after I replaced lawn with shrubs. The bird marked CE is actually incredibly friendly with humans, love sitting on your ankles and are super communal and very snuggly in their old age.
My parents just finished their 'Big Lap', and one of the things that my Mum missed the most was birdsong. Lots of flat open areas where there's no life around, and going weeks on end without bird calls passively in the background was a surprise when she first noticed it. She's happy to be back and witness the local chatter once more~!
That’s surprising. I’ve enjoyed the morning symphony everywhere I’ve camped- then again only the East.
“Like a printer having an asthma attack.” Should be found in print AND online so as to give a nod to you sir forever and a day, for this great phrase.
Our old refrigerator used to make that sound if there was a power glitch.
Many years ago I took a couple of Irish backpackers back to Adelaide from Coober Pedy, one of the things they said to me was that they loved the birds, the variety , the colours, the songs, they had not experienced it anywhere else.
Please do a video on the Australian Corvids. I got into an argument about the Common Australian Raven where I corrected someone who was calling them Crows. Yes it's a common mistake that just about everybody makes but there is a difference between a Crow and a Raven, size being the most obvious one.
ive never heard anyone call them ravens in person, the majority of people surely call them crows
So many people mistake them for crows. We need better Corvid literacy!
Size might be a giveaway in other countries corvids, but ours are all very similar in size.
Visual identification is pretty hard unless you invest a decent amount of time watching them.
The call is the only real dead giveaway, all the visual indicators can just come down to how well fed the bird is and what time of year/stage of molting they're at.
I'm in southern Victoria and while the only natural zone here is the "little raven", if I go camping southward I run into forest ravens and if I head north I find Torresian crows and Australian ravens.
Little crows even pass through here every few years and hang around paddocks with sheep.
No idea what the differ is a tbh
I think it’s also worth mentioning that Australian Magpies are NOT corvids despite popular belief, due to American and British Magpies which ARE Corvids
Everything about this video is perfect! I could not stop smiling. Clearly you love and appreciate these birds, and as a native Australian myself, it was a joy to see so many of my favourites getting a turn in the spotlight. ^_^
Honestly Australian birds have the strangest yet nicest sounds ever for some reason
The Aussie bird count started the same day as this video was published, and goes until the end of the week (Oct 16-22), and has a great reference to identify birds in your area.
I left Australia a couple of decades ago. Still miss the sound of Aussie birds! Thank you for the trip down memory lane.
The "Pink out", "gotta make sure it's dead" and the "blue balls" bit had me LOL!!! I've seen the pretty little Superb Fairywrens around and I can't look at them the same again after this. Thank you for the laughs and the information. I'm your new fan :)
Your channel combines my two favorite creatures, birds and Australians 🙂
Perth girl here who really loves Aussie birbs :D (pink and grey galahs are my love they bless my day every time I see them) I super appreciate you including the bird calls, I've heard the red wattlebird's call so many times before but never knew it was that bird. your humour is amazing too this really made me laugh, I think this is a video I should watch whenever I'm sad ❤️ I fully agree with taking the time in our busy lives to stop and appreciate the beautiful birbs around us and I'm so glad you feel the same. thank you for making such an awesome video!!
This was absolutely stunning, beautiful, perfect in every way. Your comedy is hilarious. I never thought I would ever hear a bird person talk like this but good on ya’👍🏻.
Great video mate. Most of these birds are hugely underrated. My partner and I spent months trying to figure out what bird made the currawong song and we were so excited when we finally found them while hiking. They really are mysterious guys.
We're lucky that the majority of out native birds are gorgeous songbirds. Thanks for giving them the love and recognition they deserve.
We are truely lucky to live on a continent with such an amazing variety of birds.
No issues appreciating what we have but the other continents have far more species of animals that Aussies don't have though. What nature provides us is amazing no matter where we live.
A video on ways to tell the various blackbirds apart would be awesome. Especially ravens vs crows.
My mum always used to call mudlarks "willie wagtails", wasn't until I was older I found out they were completely different. There's also a currawong that chills out near the local shopping centre and I have a pair of crested pigeons near my house that I've spotted "getting it on" near my DIY bird feeder. Gotta love aussie birds.
Fantastic. Would love to see further episodes about common Australia raptors and ground dwelling birds, of which we have no shortage.
The cockatoos early in the morning is far too relatable and horrifying.
I love magpie larks (murray magpie) and all our birds, I had a pet murray magpie that i found when i was a kid I named Chan, he was so cool. I grew up in the northern suburbs of Adelaide and barely ever seen minor birds. In about 5 to 10 years i started seeing them everywhere. Great video mate. I also grew up out in the country 45 minutes north of adelaide and always seen eagles and hawks.
Please, there have to be more videos. You didn't do the pluver or bin chicken. I'm in Queensland and I'm not sure if you get pluvers but they are absolute beasts! I saw a pluver once plump up it's body and stare down a car in the middle of the road. The car reversed. They're just fearless. I mean, they make their nests in a slight divet in the grass on the ground. No protection at all. Like I said, beasts! I love your videos, by the way!
I really hate plovers with everything i have.
@@Bruh-ez7ej agreed
@@Bne_greenbridges_trainz_studio Yeah, I was doing night duty years ago, and these Plovers decided to set up house on my front yard. They woke me up with their screeching because a car came close.
I was up and out that door, picked up rocks and chased them down the road throwing rocks, screeching plovers, and then realised I was starkers!
Rocks don't usually get rid of them that easily, so I must have freaked them out with my nakedness because they didn't come back!
@@Roger-go6jc wow
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A few months ago, There were Rainbow Lorikeets everywhere in my neighborhood. It was cute seeing them pop out of little holes trees. They were loud! But it was a sound that that never bothers me.
Then it was the occasional Ibis taking a stroll down the street. And now, it’s the Willie Wagtails that greet us in cafes! Fearless tiny birds that are equally adorable. But with a call so loud and memorable!
My local golf course had a Willie Wagtail that guarded a footbridge over a creek. He stood there daring you to cross, darting from side to side, "None shall pass." When you did go to pass he hopped to one side and just watched you. "Okay then we'll call it a draw."
The laughing Kookaburra is by far my favorite Australian bird. In my opinion, they look like punk rockers.🤘🤘 Looking forward to more videos from you. Great work, Thank You.🤩
Despite coming from a town who's name means "place of many galahs" my favourite Australian bird is the Apostle Bird, or lousy jack. They hang out in family groups, are very talkative and are always playing with each other, conducting heists of grain while 1 stays as a lookout, and warn me of snakes. They have a specific snake call and the group will gather around and harass it.
I feel very blessed. I have every single one of these birds in my garden, including the king parrot and tawny frogmouth. We also get spangled drongos and black cockatoos. I can sit for hours in my back garden (3/4 of an acre) that back into bush land and listen to the animals.
My favorites are the grey butcher birds. We had about 5 or so living on our street for a couple months and they were so sweet; slowing building their trust for us as we left food for them, serenading us with their lovely song. Fun fact about grey butcher birds: every family has their own unique song. It's been a while since they've lived on our street and I miss them, hope they're out there living their best life.
That was fun. Great job and can we have some more please. As a Kiwi I'm very envious of your colourful birds, they're gorgeous. Quite surprised at the 'special' categorisation you gave the mynah. I had expected that particular category would have been reserved for magpies, so mynahs must be pretty bad. Magpies are one of the few non English birds we have in common - the other being the white-eye or tauhou - which means stranger or new arrival in Māori - as apparently they were blown here from Australia sometime in the 1800s. 😊
All our Aussie birds are so great! This video was amazing as well, thanks!
just last week i saw a pied currawong for the first time and videos just don't do justice to how gorgeous those birds are. this one flew down behind as i was working and watched me for a few minutes. this was just a couple feet away. since they look like crows i think people might overlook them but to me they are striking, especially their bright orange eyes. even after living here for 8 years i don't get sick of all the native birds. they're all so gorgeous in their own right
Ah, this video was so nostalgic. I remember being surrounded by birds in Canberra. All the bird cries are so calming to me. Fun fact, you can tell the gender of a galah based off of its eye colour! Red for girls, blue for the boys.
BLUE?? 🤣🤣 No mate, very dark brown eyes for the males. Cheers.
@@grantodaniel7053 I swear to god, I was brought up told they were blue, and they looked blue to me (from a distance). Looking at images online now, my entire life is in chaos
the Currawong is my fav! watching them hunt is impressive. Please keep these vids up, there's so much to explore and explain. also, the wattle birds, are they chasing the little wrens and honeyeaters for fun or prey? cheers
I watched a currawong get held to the ground and attacked by 2 magpies... I wanted to cry
I was a bit sad he didn't chuck the owa owa owa-ah part in there too
we have a bunch of currawongs that come to visit often, at one point i could hand feed one of them. they also love catching food thrown to them in the air.
Wattlebirds chase away smaller birds because they don't want them eating food from their territory, they're similar to the Noisy Miners in that regard if a bit less extreme.
The Currawongs are such bold little birds. We have a couple we feed on-and-off, and their agility to snatch bits of meat out of the air provides endless amusement.
I'm absolutely gonna need you to make a video about Torresian crows. I saw one of their 'funerals' once, 60 or so crows gathered around somebody's yard all cawing wildly. I'm pretty sure they're the smartest animals in the country other than us.
We moved up to Wentworth Falls last May and have just fallen in love with the birds we see and hear daily. We walked around the lake today and admired Rosella, King Parrot, a female Bower Bird, Magpie, Currawong, Black Cockatoo and White Cockatoo. We saw plenty of others we can't identify yet. It amazes me how many more birds we see up here.
"This phenomenon has been called a pink out...by me, just now" 🤣👏👏
How wonderful. We used to see every one of these birds at our place 20 years ago, but now unfortunately that number has drastically fallen to just 6 😢
Awesome video from absolutely my new favourite UA-cam channel.
I saw a bird down near the beach yesterday I thought was a budgie (it was far and very colourful) and because of this video I’ve discovered it was a pale headed rosella! I don’t think I’ve ever seen one before then! Thanks to this video, I now know of another cool bird near me! Thanks! ☺️
Great video mate. The bursts of humour were unexpected, and gave the video a big lift. 😎🇦🇺
Hey Darcy, love your work and content. However, just want to bring to your attention about the issues with feeding wild birds. Feeding wild birds can cause them many diseases such as beak and feather (PCV) disease or metabolic bone disease. I think just have to be careful as not many people will look into details of this.
Yeah I try not to feed them now because they can fend for themselves but didn't know about the disease issues. Interesting stuff.
Sobering stuff, I had no idea. Are there particular foods which cause these kinds of issues?
PBFD is such a cruel disease and extremely contagious. Made worse by well-meaning bird lovers who feed them. An infected parrot will feed from a feeder and leave the virus behind for every other bird that uses that feeder. So far, there is no cure and they slowly die an awful death.
@@meanmrbean8641 it’s more the fact that all the birds will come to the one spot, spreading dander and fecal matter, this causes the diseases to spread. Very recently we found a sulfur cockatoo with PBFD (easily spotted by the huge lack of feathers) the disease is fatal and we’ve had more birds get it unfortunately.
Never thought of that! Makes a lot of sense.
With so many reasons not to feed wild birds, it drives me crazy how many people still do it.
YEWW ADMIN FACE REVEAL!
But seriously, fantastic video mate. I have been working and studying environmental science for a few years, and your content is spot on factual and great fun.
I've always heard the Red Wattlebird's call in the neighborhood but I never witnessed the call being done by the bird itself since I hardly see it in the abundance of the bin chickens, pigeons and ravens. I appreciate the entertaining information and I don't think I'll ever get over the Red Wattlebird's call being described as "A printer having an asthma attack".
I live in a suburb of Perth Western Australia and my house backs onto a park. I'm awoken every morning by a group of fourteen bronzewing pigeons; two willy wag tails; around twenty mourning doves; four magpies; two ravens; two galas; four crested pigeons and a mudlark. I put wild bird seed out at night. Only a little, scattered on the ground. Also fresh water. The mudlark is so smart if he thinks there are too many birds he will sound an alarm call, eveyone flies off and he can feed as he pleases 🤣 My little dog goes out in the yard each morning and the birds don't worry about her at all now. She leaves them alone completely. I did also have visiting pacific black ducks; wood ducks and shelducks but the local council filled in the creek behind my house and also killed all of the frogs! No water, no more ducks 😢 Love your videos ❤
This is everything I wanted in a birds video. Never leave me and keep making these, I implore you.
Good list. I've seen most of them here in Victoria.
I'll add a few...
Corellas. Slightly smaller cockatoo without the yellow crest, but just as loud and obnoxious.
Plovers. Maybe even more angry than magpies and have wing claws. And fly around in the middle of the night screaming.
Budgerigars. Budgies. Parakeets to foreigners. The Chihuahuas of parrots. Their name literally means "good tucker". They're the original chicken nuggets, and why boomerangs were invented.
Emus, Our Most Benevolent Overlords. Not in every backyard, but there's plenty of them.
Also, mudlarks are really stupid. I had a mudlark that would smash itself against my window from dawn to dusk all day because it could see its reflection. Stupid annoying bird. :)
I hate plovers.
I have all these in my yard in Queensland minus the emu. Tho some guy down the road found one in his backyard so there’s that.
@@Bne_greenbridges_trainz_studioI hate plovers and noisy miners as well. Fun fact: plovers as we know them are actually called masked lapwings, plovers are an entirely seperate bird
@@zzodysseuszz interesting stuff
Another thing about the corellas is you'll be lucky to find one alone. There's almost always several hundred of them(usually ripping up the school oval)
I've been overseas for the last six months, and listening to the sounds of Australian birds again is so nostalgic! Sounds of the bush!
Would surely bring a tear to my eye! ❤😊
This video was far more entertaining then I bargain for
Great vid, thanks, I love all those birds. As a cyclist in Sydney I have been swooped many times, the frequency in this order: magpies, peewees, wattlebirds, butcherbirds. It's currently swooping season. Masked lapwings (plovers) are more show than actual violence in my experience. A mate swears he was regularly getting swooped by a raven a few weeks ago!
Ravens will swoop, you usually have to agitate them first though.
Moving around the country I have found that the call of the Currawong is regional and very distinctively different from location to location. I’m not sure if they sometimes change their song within a single region like whales do, but keep your ears out for their distinctive caterwaul when you are travelling and I’m sure you will be pleasantly surprised with the variety of songs they sing.
I've found the same to be true with magpies and willy wagtails! Moreso how they finish their tune than the whole thing, but even then, sometimes the whole thing is shorter or slightly more or less complex.
Tasmanian black currawongs are beautifully distinctive. One of my favourites, whenever i hear it i know i'm home :)
Hello Darcy...this is the second of your videos I have watched back to back and I am very impressed with your productions...interesting facts, beautiful filming, classical music and a touch of humour...so you have a new subscriber.
I love birds so much that I have never had one in a cage...I much prefer to observe them living their lives in freedom. Over the years I have tried to create a little eco system in the tiny back and front yards of my rented villa...using no poisons and growing as many trees and plants as possible including weeds...an artist's garden for that is what I am. Alas the "privatised" public housing company I rent through as a disabled tenant considers cobwebs, a dead tree (home for my native bees), dead twigs, dried grasses and weeds to be rubbish and want me to have a barren moonscape...in spite of their vitriol, I leave whatever detritus I can so my birdie friends have nesting materials...which my dovies and other birds use and appreciate!
I am looking forward to watching your future films. Kind regards Sue
When I was younger, the behaviour of the fairy wrens caused them to be called 'furgling fairys'. This was so fun. Thankyou.
Loving this. Please also think about doing videos on bird by climate zone (in aus) and how to build feeders for some of the more indangered species? Thank you for sharign your knowledge!
Thanks for another brilliant production, Darcy! 🥰
In New Zealand we have a small bird called a Fantail, my elderly German via 40 years in Australia calls them a Wagtail. I'd seen them in Cairns in 2018 otherwise wouldn't have known what he was talking about.
A couple years ago I took a photo of a Kookaburra on the path outside our house in Kerikeri. Some were released by Sir George Grey on Kawau Island during the 1800's.
Hi from NZ,
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That cockatoo wheely bin fact does NOT surprise me, I've been to this magnificent campsite with billions of cockatoos and they get into our bread, open other peoples containers, it's hectic, but they're so funny, god i love them.
A video on nesting boxes would be great, and hopefully greatly appreciated by the parrots too!
I love your informative,humorous view on our wonderful native birds which are such a delight in our lifes.I am looking forward to future videos,thank you so much.😊💚
Fun fact about Mudlarks/Peewees: they have 2 patterns that are gender dependent. You easily can tell if it is a female or male by looking at their eye markings. Males have a black and horizontal mask-like pattern over the eyes, while females have vertical black bars over their eyes.
I am so glad you included the red wattle bird. I see them in my area all the time, and I never knew what they were.
I love their song
Awesome stuff mate. Got into bird watching recently and it’s amazing how much I used to take these beautiful creatures presence in our lives for granted. I get so excited now when I see a new, rare, or colourful bird, or even just the common ones like you included. Keep up the great work
Absolutely obsessed with your videos already, so keen to see more in the future :)
So I do love the Butcher Bird, know nothing about them but very gorgeous, became very good friends with a couple and they would pop in occasionally and I would leave out a few bird seeds. This was 3-4 years ago and where I live in Brisbane they have never been back - hard to spot them at all this lovely breed.
I agree, it is astounding the variety of birds that will visit your garden if you provide water and food.
I'm in suburbia, about 500 meters from bushland, on the western edge of the Blue Mountains.
Every day I get - Crimson Rosellas - Crested Pigeons - Peewees - Satin Bower Birds
Other Regular visitors - Rainbow lorikeets - Galahs - Magpies - King Parrots - Red Wattle birds
Occasionally - Eastern Rosellas - English/European Black Birds
Other species that I try to discourage from the garden are Sparrows - Pigeons - Indian Miner Birds - Sulphur Crested Cockatoos - Currawongs
Absolutely fantastic episode buddy..
Very much enjoyed this as much as the magpie video..
Please keep up the great work mate..
And I look forward to the next installment champion..
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Man you make great videos, very informative and loving the Aussie humour added to it!
I'd love to see more!
And I would love one on our corvids ❤
"LIKE I SAID! GUM TREES ARE CRUEL JACK, AND I LOVE MYNAS!!!"
- Birdowner
I heard a lot of bird songs in my childhood and the wave of nostalgia I got from hearing the pied currawong's call made this video worth the watch
What a wonderful video! Youre so calm yet informative. I've got fond memories of magpie calls in the mornings at my Grandma's, and looking at all of the Cockatoos on the balcony. However, id like to give a (dis)honorable mention to the Curlew and the Pluber (they both suck and are scary), and a more honorable one to the Pelican! I would love to know how to make these little guys (not the plubers or curlews, the other birds) more welcome in our urban environment.
I believe its "plover". Also curlews are cool, they just make creepy sounds. I dont think they actually swoop or anything
Hooded plovers are endangered I believe.
Great video, thank you. I love all our native birds although a few do test your patience. A small price to pay for such beauty.
I love our native birds, in all their wonderful variety, but the Pied Currawong has a special place in my heart.
I found my people, the pied currawong is so me too! This video came to heal my anxiety the way birds outside suddenly make me stop worrying because I’m intrigued to find them and listen, because I love bird watching but never knew much about them. It also made me remember how grateful I should be for living in this beautiful Australia. The galahs and velvet hot red rosellas and the quick neon l-blue fairywren are so adorable and easy for the eyes to catch in the trees are very pleasing to look at, and I didn’t know that wattle bird was called that, I used to call it chicken bird because it looks like it has a chicken head on a bird🥰😂 or that crested pigeon ‘mohawk pigeon’ I’ll now make an artwork for these birds together in one😍
I come in battle armour to stand against the evil linguistics that taint the reputation of the sweet Australian Minor, often referred to as the noisey minor. For the past 20 years I have lived amongst these beautiful and friendly birds without cause for concern. Daily they clean the houses and gardens of ferocious insects that would desecrate my dwelling if not for their keen eyes. They also are a fantastic alarm, hence Noisey Minor, as they come together in flocks to give warning to people and animals when unwanted predators like cats enter the premises. In my opinion, 10/10 to these creatures and I wonder if others should take another look and reconsider their opinions. Awesome, informative and very funny video. 10/10 for you too, good sir.
If you're here to talk linguistics, you should know that it's spelled 'miner'
Thank you oh Hidden One. Apologies for my silly and misinformed mistake. It appears that it is not only the Australian Min(E)r with keen eyes, perhaps far greater attention should be cast in your direction as well. 😊@@Hytheter
0:35 that photo actually isn't edited. melbourne looks like that trust
Magpie-Larks are wonderful little birds. They mate for life & I used to have a pair (dubbed Fred & Wilma) visit my bird bath on a daily basis for years. When they had chicks, they would take it in turns babysitting while the other one would spend the day foraging by themselves, though never far away. They also have an intriguing call & response system, where one will make one sound & the other would respond slightly differently, which, I assume, is to make it difficult for predators to locate them.
I also have a tree near my place which has been the subject of an ongoing war between Rainbow Lorikeets & Noisy Minors for literally decades. Watching their battles has been a constant source of fascination for many many years & neither side seems to have the upper hand to this day...
Thanks for an interesting video.
We had a male king parrot near our place that we named Stalker because he would follow you around and stare at you until you gave him seeds. After a while he became tame enough to fly to your hand and eat directly from it. He was a big heavy Boi but so beautiful..
Living on 5 acres by a river with plenty of trees & flowering shrubs, we get all of the birds in your video, and then some more.
I haven’t watched a nature doc in years - now I’ve watched 2 of yours. I learnt heaps!
Loved this. My dad used to call the currawongs "rainbirds" because they came before the rain, down to the lower parts of the Baw Baws. We are also seeing fewer willy wagtails here in Geelong, probably because people keep cutting out trees and shublands.
I saw my first King Parrots in the wild just the other day, on a trip down to Northern NSW. Beautiful plumage! 🙂