Bird Watching around Adelaide, South Australia
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- Опубліковано 8 сер 2024
- Adelaide sometimes gets flak as being a sleepy state; but for bird watching it rocks! There are many birds species here that are hard to find elsewhere. I recently spent a long weekend down in South Australia and visited many locations. You'll get to see the birds of the urban, bush and coastal environments, all within an hour from the city!
Some species included are: Elegant Parrot, Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater, Spotted Pardalote, Adelaide Rosella, Varied Sitella, plus many more.
For the best experience, watch with the highest video quality you can stream (available up to 4K) and with headphones on (you'll hear more bird calls).
Links:
Adelaide eBird Trip Report
ebird.org/tripreport/246785
Golden and Western Whistler Id Guide
ebird.org/region/AU/post/gold...
Chapters:
00:00 - Start
00:10 - Urban Birds
06:38 - Bush Birds
12:47 - Coastal Birds
17:45 - Shore Birds
21:38 - Closing
I live in Adelaide with just enough interest in Bird Watching to find this video really great and informative. Thank you!
Thank you for coming to Adelaide. I appreciate you giving us the names of birds we might come across in our local areas. Very familiar with the heron. One was an early morning visitor and cleaned out 3 fish ponds for his breakfast! Came back after I replenished them😒 Covered with netting now.
I look forward to watching your other videos. 😊
That's interesting. My friend in Adelaide said the same thing. Maybe it's the same heron going from fish pond to fish pond! Clever
Awesome so lovely video. So variety of birds. New friend from India.
Thank you. Greetings from Australia 🙂
Thanks for doing the birds of Adelaide! Barrage is pronounced with long 'a' like Gararge. The barrages are a series of structures built near the Murray mouth that separate the sea water from the lower lakes at the end of the Murray. It's the final part of the lock system that kept the pool level of the river high enough for riverboat navigation year round - when Goolwa was an important off-loading location for produce coming down the Murray from NSW, Victoria and even down the Darling from Queensland. From there is was taken to Port Elliot on Australia's first railway line (using horse-drawn carriages) for loading onto ships - later relocated to a superior facility at Victor Harbor.
The proper Barrage pronunciation sounds fancy. Thank you for that info. That's amazing they can keep the pool level deep enough for boats to navigate through. Thank you
Welcome to my hometown. Good choice of locations. Cheers Geoff
Thanks Geoff. I'll definitely visit again. I want to check out the mallee. I heard Gluepot Reserve is incredible 🙂
@@birdwatchingse-qld2253 Gluepot is good. I would also check out Lake Merreti near Renmark.Not all that far from Gluepot. My late father in law was a bird expert from Renmark and I spent many hours with him in that area. I've got a lot of my birding experiences on my channel including a short video on the hide at Goolwa. Your videos are great. Geoff
Thank you so much. I will try and share your content with my children. Very educational.❤
@@philipbyrne3037 You're welcome. Geoff
Thanks for coming to our city. You won’t be disappointed . We have plenty of different species of birds. Yes the minors are very aggressive. I call them the chihuahua of the sky.
Haha, I think I might start using that name too!
Really enjoyed this video. Learning about all these wonderful Australian birds was nice. They're all new to me, and fun. Thanks for your good work and detailed commentary.
Happy birding.
Glad you liked it. There's plenty more Aussie birds to see 😊 Thanks for watching
Thank you for showing EVERYONE what Beautiful Family of BIRDS we have. Excellent work Mate!!!
Cheers Mate Andre Georgescu of South Australia...👌🤲💝🤲🙏🙏✌👌
Thanks for watching. There was actually many more birds but I had to cut some out, as the video would have been an hour, haha.
I loved watching, thank you!
Thanks Wendy. Have a great week 😊
It's such a pity that you didn't get to see our gorgeous Red Tailed Black Cockatoos Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoos, Rainbow Honeyeaters or Purple Crowned Lorikeets.
Thankyou for showing a beautiful selection of our gorgeous birds 😊
I was hoping to great a good look at the Purple-crowned Lorikeets but missed out. O well, gives me another excuse to return 🙂
Yep he missed out southern Adelaide we have some here I can't find in any bird books.
This is so awesome to see, come back soon!
Will do. So many more areas of Adelaide and beyond to explore. Thanks for watching
Welcome to SA! Have really enjoyed your videos to date and as we're planning a road trip to Brisbane next year, these are really informative and interesting - keep them coming!
Was glad to visit! Will definitely return for more. A road trip to Brisbane sounds great.
I run a free bird walk in SEQ monthly, so if your trip aligns, you're more than welcome to join us. Check out the Facebook or Meetup for dates.
@@birdwatchingse-qld2253 Sounds like fun! Will definitely check it out when we're there!
Omg what a video! I loved your video so much almost I feel so lucky to find you today. I live in Adelaide and walking my dog every day in South terrace parkland and when I meet them in the park always wondered who are they or what is the their own species because I never seen somewhere else or in Korea where I come from. Thank you and looking forward to seeing more videos like this cheers
Glad you found it helpful. Thank you for watching 😊
Excellent video Geoff do it in SA again 👍
Great video, thanks very much, looking forward to getting to SA in the next year or so, so some good tips there.
Re the White-faced Heron, I once saw one catch and eat a rat in the reeds along the bank of Narrabeen Lagoon in Sydney.
Wow, I've only ever seen WFH eat really tiny fish. Seeing them go after a rat would have been cool! Thanks for sharing ☺️
Beautiful video.. i love rainbow Lorikeets.. ❤ we have alot of them in our garden 😀
They're beautiful and such fun. I have a balcony garden and have a pair of Rainbows that regularly rest in my flame tree. They rarely squawk there, just chatter away, it's nice.
Great channel I
Am new subscriber going to binge watch som shows
Thanks Carol. Enjoy. New video coming this Friday to add to the binge list 🙂
Lovely video, taking in some of my favourite local birdwatching spots around Adelaide! The only regular spots I go to a lot that you missed is Laratinga Wetlands in Mount Barker.
You got a very nice selection of species!
Thank you. I actually visited Laratinga Wetlands but was disappointed I couldn't spend much time there. My jaw dropped when I saw two Spotted Crake just walking around out in the open by the central pond (they are super rare and elusive in SE QLD). I'll definitely visit it again next time.
Beautiful selection you found. Sometimes it's hard to find the names of birds, seems some species have 2 or 3 names they go by. The Corellas something I didn't know there were different types.
To make it even more confusing, some species can have several common names! It takes a bit of time to learn the "official" common names, but it's worth it 🙂
Next time you're in SA come for a walk in Eden Hills. Amazing bird variety here, in the streets and parks, and in Wittunga Botanic Garden.
Will do. Thanks for the tip. I'll definitely check them out ☺️
I think a few pairs of spotted doves escaped from Adelaide zoo in the 1930s
Interesting, those zoo escapees can be problematic. I do love the Spotted Dove's call though, so relaxing. Thanks for watching 🙂
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Heard: peaceful dove, red wattlebird, Australian magpie.Striated pardalote, little raven, grey fantail,rainbow lorikeet, new holland honeyeater, white-plumed honeyeater.
Great ear-birding 🙂
I loved the Scarlet Robin at the end of the video. Do you know any Sunshine Coast Hotspots where I can get tonnes of species at? I've really been getting into owling and have found Southern Boobook, Australian Owlet-Nightjar and Tawny Frogmouths. Great video!!
Scarlet Robins are unbelievably cute and colorful.
One of my favourites on the Sunny Coast is Barron Pocket Dam (North Maleny side) arrive at sunrise, the dawn chorus is incredible. Finland Rd, Paradise Waters is great roadside birding.
That's cool you've found so many species owling so far. I haven't been in ages, I saw a Powerful Owl last time 🙂 All best find more 👍
Great video, thanks. What was the coughing bird just as you begun your wander around at 6.50, mixed in the magpies. I feel I know it.
That's one of the many calls of the Red Wattlebird 🙂
Thanks! Thought so, but wanted to check with an expert.
I never knew about the Western Whistler! I've probably been misidentifying them for ages. The description link's great for telling apart females/juveniles but not the male Western vs Golden--what d'you use to distinguish them?
The male Golden vs Western Whistlers are difficult to ID. Goldens are typically east coast and Westerns are in Perth, South Australia and (west) Victoria, however, their distributions are beginning to overlap more and more.
The main diagnostic features are the neck, in the Golden it is a band of yellow across the shoulders to neck, whereas the Western the yellow opens up towards the head. The Western also has a grey tail, whereas the Goldens is black (though this would be hard to see in the field). This illustration makes it easier to see the difference: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hs50dgk5rxh3x6jde08l3/golden-western-whistler.jpg
Hope this helps
@@birdwatchingse-qld2253 Thank you so much!! My Slater guide doesn't mention it--that's what I get for basing my bird knowledge on an old book. I'll have to look through my old photos but I'd guess it's been Western Whistlers all along!
No probs. These species have been split and lumped before. For the timebeing eBird (Clements) considers them two separate species but BirdLife Australia says the Western is a subspecies of the Golden (I believe this the way to go, once both coverge further I suspect there will be hybrids making it next to impossible to ID by sight).
I wish the ornithologists would make up their minds. It makes it confusing for us bird watchers!
Eastern Rosella is eating borage. It's a beak not a bill.
Ah that's great, thank you. I need to expand my plant knowledge.
I'd argue that the Moorhen has a bill rather than a beak (Cornell's Birds of the World and Morcombe's agree but I'm sure other guides use 'beak'). Birding usage of bill vs beak is often mixed up. Eg Long-billed Corella, IMO they have a beak. Anyway, no matter what term we use, as long as we know what each of us is talking about, that's the main thing 🙂
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Greetings from India 💐💐
Thank you for watching. India has many wonderful birds! They are on my to-see list. Have a great week.