Amazing Singing Performance by Four Pied Butcherbirds, Western Australia

[@LootFreak]

Nothing more Aussie than havin a Coffee on ya verandah at 5am and listening to these bad boys. I love our Country.

[@Valhalla_Heathen]

Much love to Australia from the USA!

[@CocoJoubert]

They always warm my heart!

[@territhomson9656]

Ditto, i whistle with them, everyday.

[@marksd5650]

Nothing would entice me to be up drinking coffee at 5am. 😊

[@wildhomevideos]

Puts you in a good mood straight away doesn't it. You really know where you are when you hear that😎

[@aluckyman1475]

The butcherbirds at my place went nuts and are singing up a storm while I'm playing this. 😂 Amazing birds. Amazing fliers too

[@kidowmer]

Absolutely marvelled at these amazing singers 👏👏👏 Thanks for sharing this!👍😊

[@dubemccready7438]

most definitely a beautiful & delightful Bird - their vocal range is amazing and they are a friendly bunch when they choose to be so. Gorgeous.

[@anarchyfork2676]

I love how individually, these birds choose to sing in minor. It adds mystery to them, and it suits them especially when they start singing at 5 in the morning or whenever the sky starts to blue.

[@bluescribblez]

these are the birds i hear every morning from 4-7 am :D they sound so sweet i love them

[@persiathiest1963]

Lucky you :) All I hear is cars and street noise.

[@mikkywhalan]

Me too. Thats my alarn

[@Osakerman]

These guys also eat other baby birds and they impale their prey with thorns

[@bluescribblez]

@@Osakerman oh..

[@DM_sonic9]

Oh my god nostalgia

[@denisfaithful1006]

Denis Faithful, i realy like to hear the birds singing in the morning when i am eating my breakfast on my back veranda . Its a beautiful sound to start my day. Keep up the good work.

[@robynmcvean4712]

My very favourite is the Bell Bird

[@dragoncubes1074]

Mine is the lyrebird. I can hear him singing in the wild area behind my house.

[@propertyofranger]

I’m so impressed you managed to capture video of them actually singing! It’s so lovely being able to watch them while they perform. Absolutely magnificent! Thanks for sharing with us ❤️

[@senatinemoonthorn9030]

Excellent video! I have 3 adult pied butcherbirds and 2 children and they all love to sing together! Sometimes i like to sing with them by whistling my own tune and they copy!

[@mrsshah7762]

What a joy to see, thankyou for sharing

[@PoppyTaterman]

I've been searching for a particular bird call my whole life, and I have never been able to figure out what it is. I've always called the bird the "birthday bird" because when I was a kid and would wake up super early and excited on my birthday, I would hear it. While I'm not 100% convinced, I thiiiiink it might be the butcherbird.

[@rodneysipthorp7063]

Same here. Been looking as to what made this sound for ages.

[@bluemascara100]

Yes that call is nostalgic

[@msidiotbox2570]

I'll never tire of their songs.

[@edwarddeitch8886]

I was once camping and driving across the outback of Cape York when I came upon a Pied Butcher bird singing up a storm from a dead tree in the middle of nowhere. Fantastic experience. About the only equivalent we have here in America would be our Mockingbirds. They are gorgeous singers too.

[@wendyroach7285]

Beautiful. 😚

[@oxoelfoxo]

What about whippoorwills?

[@AuntyBec]

I have 2 of these that visit every single day. One eats mince out of my hand, and the other one sits on the table next to me and flings the mince around and eats the little bits first. They're such great singers and if one of them whistles near me, it's so loud I have to block my ears, very ear piercing sound. Gorgeous birds they are.

[@ianhills5793]

Great footage with clear sound. I believe pied butcherbirds are talented mimics and have witnessed them 'sampling' elements of other birds' calls and doing their own mixes. I believe there are other bird calls & parts of calls in this presentation. I was very lucky to watch one bird sit outside my window in gentle rain and go through a series of long renditions with several other bird calls mixed in, as though singing idly to itself. Thanks for posting.

[@drumsandstix128]

Yes I have heard the same thing. I have a gaggle of them who get fed by me and they mimic calls from other birds. There is even one that lands on my hand and follows me around when Im on the ride on mower, collecting the insects and worms.

[@shirlystielow7263]

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[@Dowlphin]

I witnessed eurasian jays imitate hawks and cats (allegedly to scare off other birds from food sources). But nothing beats the lyrebird in copying sounds.

[@dantemadden671]

I watched a video of a butcher bird clearly copying a magpies song somewhat

[@Dowlphin]

@@dantemadden671 The Eurasian jay tends to imitate birds of prey and cats to keep competition away.

[@elroyfudbucker6806]

Beautiful sounding birds and then you see what they do with their prey. They are impaled on thorns or sometimes barbed wire.

[@jennifern8765]

The concert starts ~2:24

[@Conn30Mtenor]

When I lived in Alice Springs the Pied Butcher Bird who lived in a tree outseide of my apartment had the best song and I loved waking up to it.

[@willows801]

I love these birds we have 4 wild visitors that live at our doorstep. Graham Melinda Reggie and Private, they all have their own unique personalities and just put a smile on your face.

[@ronaldwhite5670]

Beautiful 😍

[@evanseventy7593]

They love sitting atop power poles, belting their songs out down empty morning streets.

[@msidiotbox2570]

Just beautiful. I love that you can hear the other(s) answering.

[@thereselarfield7177]

I hear them everyday now..... now I know what birds they are, so beautiful.... their singing stops me in my tracks❤️

[@annabbott7652]

Friend in WA has one he feeds. Amazing to hear their singing. Beautiful and real choir in unison.

[@andrewnorgrove6487]

Delightful birds I used to spend hours when a kid learning there calls and often had them sit in a tree and converse

[@victorberquez3254]

So beautiful. I would like to wake up each morning and hear that sound. Victor from Australia

[@GreenEyedGamingGal]

Awesome footage, thanks for sharing :)

[@yaronkl]

I love them

[@gracegorman3306]

Beautiful piece of visual art, too. Gorgeous.

[@4july99]

Absolutely wonderful! Thanks :-)

[@merveilleuxetmagique]

Wow! Thank you for this beautiful discovery! First time for me hearing them, fantastic group singers!

[@WildAmbience]

Great footage, especially the group singing together!

[@feralbluee]

beautiful, calming song. . . :) 🕊

[@LAMEN_THE_BLAND]

They sound gorgeous, I wish they also lived in America

[@emp420]

they may not want to live there ... many bird varieties in "australia" are unhappy to be here ... but the butcher bird was here first ...

[@mohdruzaini5930]

Just saw my friend post stories on instagram. Bird sounds on background omg what a sound this bird made

[@banjar10997]

Enchanting, magical. Thanks for this!

[@janellehoney-badger6525]

That’s a different tune again! I’ve been noticing the different tunes of butcher birds between the Central Coast & Hornsby area birds. What an amazing bird. I need to look up the native song of the Lyre bird as I’ve only heard the imitated sounds, which is mind blowing how they can mimic power tools, people chatting & other household sounds, amazing.

[@jasonmihatsch7762]

What amazing footage! Best one i've seen, they are beautiful birds. I have about 10 or so that visit me daily for a sneaky treat of mince and they sing.. I should take some footage too! Nice work!

[@cheesequaked]

I love seeing them appear with magpies, magpie larks and currawongs 😂😂 a small monochromatic family! Lmao

[@Moarlatz]

They are by far the best singing birds in Aus, especially the first 10 minutes of every day, at roughly 5:50am just before sunrise these birds produce the best 10 minutes of songbirding on the planet, then the rest of the time they sound like in this video. That first 10 minutes though is beyond amazing. 4:26 it's almost like that but it's still a bit different and better

[@Aluminata]

They sound like dial up internet.😊

[@mohuckmedshishkeblob1712]

Great birds, I have a few Grey one's most mornings here in Sydney, great start to the day :)

[@megablablatruch]

i miss caloundra bird songs soo damn much

[@mamiebobb4173]

Magnificent!

[@miayle9545]

Wow...I didn’t know that it was butcherbirds’ singing, for many years, I thought it was wiggy tail birds as they were there when I saw it...that butcherbird must hided somewhere then. Haha, glad to know!

[@fieldy409]

They love killing people's pet birds to eat I hear so keep that in mind if you get anything.

[@capricorniaproject3020]

Violinist Hollis Taylor did a PhD on the song of pied butcherbirds and her work is published as Is Birdsong Music? Outback Encounters with an Australian Songbird. Well worth finding.

[@woofbark4475]

Nice informative video! Well done!! Keep up the good work posting your videos!

[@AsAboveISoBelow]

At the end of the second bird singing, it sounded like he was laughing at some news one of the other birds called. xP

[@AyZeD]

It's similar to how magpies sound, pretty cool. I think they're also close cousins to magpies.

[@blueshorecreative3146]

Nice! Thank you. I'm Australian and I love the songs of butcher birds, pus the way they sometimes sing together. Would that be a family group chorus?

[@Ajb5591]

wow, sounds a bit like the Australian magpie, I have a local butcherbird who just makes a kinda mix between a purr and a bark, I have never heard him sing

[@ThisIsJaysWorld]

Amazing Singing. Incredibly vicious to prey. They're like Sweeney Todd

[@robynmcvean4712]

When I see and hear this, I certainly know why, I don’t like to see any bird in a cage. They are free spirited and should be aloud to fly freely.

[@rotorrover1033]

Sad how us humans come along and knock their homes down

[@shockal7269]

You should see what Butcherbirds do to their prey

[@HMijailAntonQuiles]

@@shockal7269 you should see what humans do to any living thing

[@carolineeising717]

Not that it excuses cutting down trees, but butcher birds have adapted very well to urban environments, and are common in the suburbs. I live in the inner suburbs of Brisbane (5 minutes from the CBD) and we have a large number of grey and pied butcher birds. They'll often come and sit within feet of me while I'm gardening. Took me a while to figure out who was singing in the middle of the night though, but it turns out these guys are my insomnia buddies. They start about 2am and go right until dawn. I wonder when they sleep!

[@Ta-da32]

♥️♥️♥️

[@milkysanswifeandgirlfriend2480]

Me and the boys after eating a healthy breakfast of babies

[@jasonfrigeri]

Hi. Beautiful recording. Where was it made. I don’t have them in Margaret river

[@LAOWayMusic]

I was so freaked out when I watched a scary movie and started hearing these 4 whistling notes in the morning and only after my husband left for work, there they'd be "doo...DOO...Doo...doo...." just like the beginning of the video, I'm so relieved it was these fellas and not the dead little girl who might be coming to kill me in seven days or something 😭 they can sound pretty paranormal if you've never heard them before!

[@emanuelfery1393]

👍👍👍❤️ 🐦

[@patricia.a.mcauley4543]

Had 1 in Port Melbourne, Victoria Australia.is that normal?

[@brianward7724]

"Best singers of all Australian birds"......have you heard a Grey Shrike-thrush?

[@stevebluh]

I recorded the sound of Pied Butcher Birds mimicking native birds, chicken and dog bark soundcloud.com/bassethound-1 I have also heard Magpies mimic in rare occasions.

[@1622marg]

Certainly up there with the maggies

[@jeliarra]

Sounds like a musical instrument, cross between a clarinet and flute, except the Bird sounds better than most.

[@Dowlphin]

1:20 Bass drop! 😄 Should be called the composerbird or at least pied piperbird. Such a clumsy name. The German one is even worse: Schwarzkehl-Krähenwürger (blackthroated crowretcher). And the latin one - Cracticus nigrogularis - sounds quite dreadful, too.

[@shayposting]

I feel like they're about to bust out Bohemian Rhapsody lol

[@mjyanimations1062]

They have similar voices to magpies but their songs are different

[@bazwright1962]

Sounds similar to the Organ Pipe Wren.

[@blueshorecreative3146]

who the hell doesn't like this? weird.

[@sandidi211]

they all stop at the same time lol

[@ホグライダードズル]

Fluffy

[@qemon3926]

Kinda sounds like Boop bop bap

[@merewynyard5813]

Leave the butcher birds alone, we all know what humans do to their prey

[@PEACEandQUIET999]

Slow warm up xx

[@carolcollins4878]

An unfortunate name for such beautiful birds, and they love Chopin, but sometimes they leave a bird carcass in thanks, but aren't humans much worse than that?

[@Misszumicat]

love the songs, hate the name some human gave them! how about the Lovelies? some better name!!

[@maryfitzgerald4812]

Yes, but it comes from their very aggressive killing style. Still a gorgeous bird song.

[@TheHandThatBites]

Copying a Rosella lol

[@victorberquez3254]

So beautiful. I would like to wake up each morning and hear that sound. Victor from Australia

[@lynw1623]

Victor Berquez I am from Australia and I hear my butcher birds sing also my magpies. How on earth haven’t you heard them if you are an Aussie ?

[@propertyofranger]

@@lynw1623 Not all birds are found across all regions of the country. Here in Sydney we have grey butcherbirds, but not black or pied butcherbirds. Two hours north though and there and you’ll find pied butcherbirds. It’s not the OP’s fault they don’t get this variety of bird where they live.