American reacts to birds in Australia that START BUSHFIRES!

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[@TitanSummers]

The thing with Australia is a lot of our plants have evolved to NEED fire to reproduce.

[@mitchreine3902]

yeah alot of people overseas don't understand its almost a necessary part of the ecosystem cycle

[@ryanreaction]

wow what a conundrum

[@TitanSummers]

@@ryanreaction First nation people would use fire for hunting. Doing regular controlled burns so it was not as hot and devastating and deadly. They burnt smaller areas as they moved around the country. Now they get out of control and a lot hotter causing a lot more death and damage.

[@wendy5290]

More correctly, Australian plants need smoke to open up the seed pods in order to germinate.

[@poledra73]

@@ryanreaction Yeah, sorry about the eucalypts gifted to California. Our bad 😕😕

[@gregoryparnell2775]

Lots of Australian Plants & especially trees need Bushfires to germinate their seeds.

[@adda58]

Dude look up how many millions of acres of Northern Australia are Tropical Savannah and you will see why it hasn’t been captured on film. Not many roads up there either!

[@benjaminparkinson5255]

The fire hawk good name for a team

[@grandmothergoose]

Yeah, if birds were doing that around Sydney or Melbourne, there'd be heaps of video evidence of it. Between the huge area, the extremely low population, tech requirements, and the tendency for humans to also move away from bushfires, it would require a very specific and expensive effort to catch so much as a single guilty bird on video close and clearly enough to prove the point.

[@PaulusFuscus]

Well someone must of seen it to know about it .DER !! They just need to film it.

[@PaulusFuscus]

@@grandmothergoose If you can see it, you can film it. What dumb comments.

[@grandmothergoose]

@@PaulusFuscus Plenty of people have seen it happen, and there is quite a bit of film footage of the birds hanging around fires, but the problem is that most humans don't notice the birds fire starting behaviour until they've already started a fire, and even when one does see one start it, by the time they realise what the bird is doing it's too late to catch it on camera, because until the fire starts, it just looks like the bird was carrying a stick and dropped it.

[@jonsant7232]

I've lived in Australia for more than 45 years and did not know this was a thing, this place never ceases to amaze me.

[@nolasyeila6261]

Not only do birds problem solve, other birds watch them and learn and so the techniques are passed on - like cockatoos learning how to flip open rubbish bins. Corvids are especially clever. I have seen birds solve a puzzle where they put food in a tube of water , where the bird can't get its beak in, but they provide pebbles to the bird. The bird knows to drop the pebbles into the tube until the water levels rises and floats the food up to within reach.

[@michaelmolloy365]

They're Whistling Kites and I've actually seem them doing it when I was living in the Northern Territory. They also play. I've seen them on mine sites early in the morning sitting on a waste rock pile. One will start a rock rolling down the face and the others chase it...

[@joecolliscollis3512]

in the outback they follow tractors when we plough by the hundreds catching snakes and mice they see the dust for miles and come for diner

[@marklivingstone3710]

I’ve seen a couple of documentaries that show this. From memory, one was done by Attenborough who made the observation, the only creature other than humans using fire as a tool. It makes sense if it flushes the predators game out of hiding.

[@jenniferharrison8915]

I'd rather watch Attenborough! 👍

[@peterwatt4438]

I've witnessed this happen in northern NSW Australia. when burning the sugar cane. Farmers have to watch so they don't spread to other fields .

[@arjovenzia]

Hmm, never captured on camera? I doubt that, I'm fairly sure I've seen a photo of a hawk holding a burning stick. N that would have been back in '97, before photoshop was a real thing. The grasslands in the NT are next level. Grilled snake or mouse does sound pretty grand.

[@kennethdodemaide8678]

There are videos available. One is called "This is how birds use fire".

[@AndyViant]

People didn't believe that in Australia hawks threw venomous snakes at people until it was caught on camera. Crazy but true.

[@jessbellis9510]

Oh god that poor lady I remember that. But they don't throw snakes at people intentionally, they drop them from heights to kill them, and unfortunately sometimes the snake happens to fall on a person.

[@1964Rennie]

I had a brown snake dropped on my car, then when it slid off it was scooped up - Wedge tailed eagle near Eppalock in Vic. Got a big fright!

[@the_person_in_the_photo]

Jesus that’s something else man haha

[@Bambi_Sapphic]

2:50 it's actually a good thing, alot of our eucalyptus species and other tree species require experiencing a bushfire to start the dispersal and germination process of their seed

[@Schiltzenberger]

It's like the kangaroos drowning dogs, it was common knowledge but no one had any footage, but in recent times there's been a bunch of videos with kangaroos hopping to a river or dam and waiting for the dog to come in. Also, whenever you mow your lawn you'll often have a bunch of birds come and sit on the fence waiting for grasshoppers and other insects to pop up.

[@axle.australian.patriot]

My fan tail wrens pick at my ankles to make me walk and disturb the bugs in the grass. I had one that used to ride on the base cutter of my ride on watching for the bugs getting flung out the side. I was always scared he/she was going to fly into the blades, but he/she never did lol

[@louiseclifford5184]

Ryan I live on a farm in Queensland and as soon as soon as we start slashing the paddocks the hawks are circling overhead waiting to catch any animals who are disturbed due to being flushed out by the tractor.

[@Aussie-63]

Ditto Cattle station. Foxes are red hot too

[@c0veredinash]

I have a magpie family that does the same the second I start the mower.

[@buzzzzzz69]

Obviously not on the same scale, but just in my suburban Perth backyard I have a pair of Willy Wagtails who follow me around the second I pick up a rake or shovel & head towards the compost pile....😅 I have to grab the worms before they do... Clever little buggers!

[@c0veredinash]

@@buzzzzzz69 how cool is it! I like it because they hang around and keep the brown snakes away

[@Aussie-63]

@@c0veredinash And it's bloody great too. I have had Jackos as a 98 year old lady once told me, for over 50yrs now. Many generations. They are very protective. When ever a snake is around they go berserk until I come out to see whats going on. I deal with the snake and they all immediatly all come to yard and start singing. I love em. They eat more than me the bastards. lol

[@azzc1111]

We demand you learn of a true Aussie culture icon, the Succulent Chinese Meal!

[@karindaisackson5706]

Oh God I don’t think he’s ready for that 😂🤣

[@hyperspacejester7377]

Democracy manifest 😆

[@BobWobbles]

Yes indeed. An absolute must see !!

[@AndyViant]

@@hyperspacejester7377 I see you know your judo.

[@mcbama6848]

Agh I see you know you’re judo well 😂🍻

[@Bambi_Sapphic]

Cockatoos in sydney learned how to open bins, then they started teaching other colonies of cockatoos to do it too. Now as far north as brisbane the behavior is seen in colonies

[@jessbellis9510]

The crows do that here in Perth area. Cockies do it too. One time in high school all of year 11 and 12 were reprimanded for littering but we all knew none of us was doing that shit since the quadrangle would be clean when we went back to classes. Come back out at lunch, and rubbish was EVERYWHERE. We tried telling the teachers it was the bloody crows not us, but they didn't believe it until they literally watched two of them open a bin and start throwing rubbish everywhere.

[@stephenallen4374]

Malcolm Douglas has video of firehawks and I think the Leyland brothers has footage

[@artflyer8775]

Yeah I remember watching them as a kid, I loved it

[@Prsboy78]

I have seen it myself twice and yes it can really make my job (as a firefighter)that much harder during high fire risk days.

[@Aussie-63]

Eternal Thanks to You and all your Mates. Take care bloke. 🧑‍🚒🧯👩‍🚒🧯🧑‍🚒🧯

[@kennethdodemaide8678]

There are several videos of this. "This is how birds use fire". Check it out.

[@jenniferharrison8915]

That's unAmerican! 😁👍

[@6226superhurricane]

it's definitely been captured on film, i've seen it on documentaries and photographs. australia: earths magical kingdom is one of the documentaries.

[@grantmcauliffe3437]

They do do it. The predator birds do it to scare the small birds out of the trees, making them easy prey. They are very smart birds. I live in the Aussie bush.

[@craigfrith7024]

If anyone wants to see a hawk start a fire I just watched a video from 3yrs ago titled firehawk Australia fires.

[@shanegooding4839]

If you want to see birds solve puzzles try looking up smart Australian crows and ravens.

[@tacitdionysus3220]

Something that needs to be appreciated about bush fires in Australia. In the south and more developed areas, bush fires are thought of as an enemy (e.g. you FIGHT the fire) and as primarily being destructive to people, property and nature. In the north, which is much less developed, that is not so much the case. Fires are a normal part of the environment, occur on an annual cycle, are necessary for nature to thrive, and are not fought unless they are likely to impinge on the odd isolated settlement or property of some sort. Other than that they are monitored and largely allowed to run free. Many firefighters and indigenous people in the latter areas have seen such bird behaviour, and many rural firefighters everywhere certainly have seen predatory birds congregating over recently burnt areas for a feast. In the south the break out of a bush fire results in a response (often massive) to control it, or at least prevent it from damaging things people value. In the north that is far less the case. Fire is a natural phenomenon, as natural as the plants and animals of the area, and we are just people who sometimes put things we value in their path.

[@6226superhurricane]

two entirely different habitats and seasonal cycles. in the tropical grassland savanna the tall grasses are burnt after the wet season to prevent more devastating fires later in the dry season. it's a quick low burn. on the east coast it's heavily forested with large hardwood trees when fires get out of control they are on scales of magnitude worse than grass fires. regular burning in heavily forested areas opens the canopy allowing more light, more light equals more scrub in the understory, more scrub in the understory means entire old growth forests can be wiped out by intense fires. they are not the same, they are not close to being the same.

[@tacitdionysus3220]

@@6226superhurricane Quite so. My comments are about common public perception, rather than the science of its behaviour. Both are very complex issues with lots of nuance, a developing and deepening understanding, its fair share of unknowns, and (as in every era and subject) things we think are factual but subsequent study shows to be inadequate or just plain wrong.. Not the sort of thing that justice can be done to in social media comments alone.

[@AndyViant]

Fire stores nutrients in the soil too. So it's essential for certain plants to germinate, and improves the soil. It's just the issue about keeping it from destroying human structures

[@6226superhurricane]

@@AndyViant fire depletes nutrients in the soil every burn equals a deficit. the issue with over burning is turning fertile ground into wasteland.

[@joshd2013]

Yep been getting worse and worse ever since they banned back burning too

[@tamarapetrov4990]

Many many smart birds here, smart in many ways

[@ekabrown1773]

Yes it has been video and dcumented

[@doubledee9675]

Ryan, they are bushfires here. Wild fires are an Americanism

[@Aussie-63]

Just a Yank mate, smarter than most though

[@mindi2050]

Yes, Ryan knows we call them bush fires in Australia. It's why he used the term 'bush fires'.

[@zalired8925]

Actually watched a video last week of pig hunting and the bloke randomly pointed to stubble being burnt after harvest showing 5 or 6 Hawkes hovering around the edges of the fire. He mentioned that very reason of preying on the mice that run away from the fire. That was the first time I had seen this behaviour.

[@dennismcdonnell7853]

Butcher birds sit on the fence and watch for grubs that have been affected as we mow the grass. But I haven't seen one mowing yet !!! They dive down even close to the mower if they see one, and are not afraid.

[@perryschafer5996]

Kites are smart birds. When I was teaching in the Territory kids would throw bits of their lunch into the air and the birds would swoop and catch it in midair. We had to get them to stop doing it when some of the birds chose not to wait for the kids to throw it.

[@jessbellis9510]

A lot of Aussie birds will just snatch it out of your hand at this point.

[@Ainzleeriddell]

Dicky Knee from Hey Hey just died!

[@Sharon-be4df]

Yeah I just heard that today. They're starting to drop now.

[@kevharper1378]

I was stuck in a caravan park in the NT, suburban Darwin, with a broken camper. One hot day a fire started outside the fence and I noticed that the kites were taking fire sticks ahead of the front and dropping them causing more fire to run ahead . Lots of birds and in the 80's film was expensive so no proof, but it happened.

[@santobell]

Seen this first hand in the Kimberley's (North-Western Australia), I was in the SES and we would assist local volunteer firefighters with back burns and bush fire control. Watch a group of Brown hawk/kestrel like birds bring fire across our break to untouched scrub in the 90's.

[@andrewporrelli8268]

You still don't quite grasp the size of Australia, sport! Hunting anything into extinction is not an easy task over here, and moreover, why? You wanna help hunt lightening strikes into extinction as well? The fire hawks are all part of the cycle over here in Aus. I've seen many a time, kookaburras fire hunting after burning off. It's no biggy!

[@Danger_Mouse3619]

If this bird was a car it'll be a Pontiac Firebird 😜

[@logic.and.reasoning]

Bushfire is NEEDED in Australia

[@lashlaroopiggot4795]

I am pretty sure I remember seeing an animal show that had footage of fire hawks. Attenborough? cant remember. But there is video of this. maybe not on youtube. cheers ryan

[@suechandler8162]

Ann Jones, ABC Science, watch her, she's GREAT!!!😅

[@taipan801]

State of Origin is on. GO QUEENSLAND!!!

[@Aurochhunter]

I'm curious as to which state Aussies who live in states other than Queensland or New South Wales go for.

[@ONEF0URW3ST]

Nah NSW

[@sunisbest1234]

​@Aurochhunter QLD of course! ( from an ex-Qlder in Vic. ) 😊

[@trishnewman3122]

Some of us just don't care 😞

[@TheCeleron450]

Time to get the golf clubs and send those cane toads packing.

[@petergracemeguide1280]

This is true as a volunteer firefighter i have witnessed a wedgetail eagle procure fire picking up burning sticks and drop it on un burnt ground , this was in Murray bridge sth Australia . And again in the south east and again in the Mallee.

[@AnachIslam-uo2zz]

Many many smart birds here

[@MartinSchurmann-ym1ly]

I swear I've seen videos from BBC or ABC Australia.

[@jennysmith3874]

I find this far fetched , flying into a fire and getting a stick thats on fire and flying with it .

[@AndyViant]

By the way, Queensland, Northern Territory and Western Australia isn't THOUSANDS of Square Kilometers but MILLIONS. Those three states are over 5.5 MILLION square kilometers, or 8 times the size of Texas, or over half the size of Europe to the Urals.

[@jessbellis9510]

I mean hell, WA alone is 3.5 times the size of Texas.

[@twoflyinghats]

Oh Ryan, Ryan, Ryan. Do you ever read any of these KZbin comments? I've mentioned before and no doubt others have too that it's both wrong in terms of its white supremacist background and therefore offensive to call our First Nations peoples "Aboriginals" as YOU KEEP ON DOING. First, "Aboriginal" is an ADJECTIVE and not a noun as are other names for nations of people. It needs a capital letter as all others do and a NOUN to qualify it, such as Aboriginal people, Aboriginal culture, knowledge, art, children and so on. It was also the generic term used by the British and Europeans as they explored and met Indigenous people everywhere and called them whatever they wanted. It's used in other countries as well. Second, it's been used offensively and as a derogatory term by ignorant idiots, especially when abbreviated, though you wouldn't know that. There are hundreds of cultures and subcultures of First Nations people here, just as there are in your country, and they are not the same. Talk about our two nations of Indigenous people or better, call them our First Peoples, which is the most neutral expression in use globally and applies to both Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islander people. Please don't use that word again.

[@twoflyinghats]

Then yet again you use an AMERICAN video of second hand AMERICAN interpretation to learn about another country, as you do. How dumb is that? ALWAYS go to the source country!

[@dean4817]

They are called whistling kites

[@zalired8925]

Crows also pick up 1080 poison meat baits to kill Dingoes dropped by planes and because the bait is too big to eat they will drop them up to 10 k's from where the bait landed. Doesn't cause bushfires but causes a lifetime of grief to anyone who is forced to watch helpless as their ped dog screams jolts convulses runs uncontrollably attacking anything and anyone who attempts to assist or comfort it. All while their pet is in absolute unimaginable agony and fully aware until the very end, which can last for up to 12 or more hours. This stuff is banned in every other country for obvious reasons except Australia and our Kiwi mates. All to save a few sheep so farmers can make a couple of extra bucks at the expense of native wildlife. For every 750 baits taken on average only one bait is taken by one dingo, killing 750 native animals for every one native dingo killed. But remembering twice every year over two million 1080 poison baits are dropped each autumn and spring in NSW alone over the majority of the environment including all national parks. This also occurs in Qld and SA where the government has mandated killing every single dingo in SA by 2027. That means complete extinction of Dingoes in South Australia including the unique sub species found no where else but Flinders Ranges. By law every land owner over 10 acres must regularly ground bait their property with 1080 poison baits even if the landowner disagrees.

[@andrewjgrimm]

1080 is used to control introduced species as well.

[@zalired8925]

@@andrewjgrimm KZbin hasn't been showing my replies so this is probably a waste of time. It's a proven myth perpetrated by the agricultural lobby and PESTSMART/ Wild Dog (not to be confused with PetSmart)Action Plan to shamefully promote increased use of 1080 and falsely ease public concerns that native animals are 1080 tolerant. This is a purposeful lie, 1080 will kill any living creature, all that consume baits or poisoned carcases. Problem is non target species and people's pets take the majority of 1080 dingo and fox baits and native herbivores were the main uptakers of grain based 1080 baits for rabbits and pigs after camera traps at bait sites were analysed and viewed. Particularly scavenger birds and birds of prey. Huge wedge tail eagle deaths are regularly reported by property owners bordering baited public lands and properties as well as a rapid decline in all species from either first or secondary poisoning. Pouched young are killed when the parent consumes grain based baits followed by the parent, then whatever consumes the internal organs of poisoned carcases. Birds have been recorded dying just by consuming ants which have eaten 1080 meat baits and almost 75% of non target victims are goana and monitor lizards. Areas where quolls are present before baiting have become absent of quolls after baiting. Won't go on but all the relevant research is published and publicly available.

[@zalired8925]

@@andrewjgrimm Knew KZbin wouldn't show my honest reply.

[@andrewjgrimm]

@@zalired8925 KZbin must be a part of the 1080 conspiracy!!1!

[@zalired8925]

@@andrewjgrimm They just don't like anyone who dares to criticize Israel.

[@FlyxPat]

Sci Show was one of the first channels I ever followed. And through that into Hank Green’s many other endeavours.

[@suechandler8162]

I have seen it on video

[@stephbooth5213]

Please react to State of Origin NRL 2024. It's a good example of when a bad tackle goes REALLY bad.

[@matallens3006]

Yep firebirds usually found on transams😂😂😂😂😂😂😊😆😆😆😆😂😂😂😂😆😆😆😆😆😆

[@competitionglen]

You would have to be near a bushfire to film. DO NOT GO NEAR BUSHFIRES😮

[@karenr59]

𝟮𝟭 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗻’𝘁 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄! 1. The Australian Alps get more snow than the Swiss Alps. 2. 90% of Australians live on the coast. 3. Tasmania has the cleanest air in the world. 4. The Great Barrier Reef is the largest ecosystem in the world. It is made up of nearly 3,000 individual reefs and can be seen from space. 5. Australia has over 60 separate wine regions. 6. Fraser Island in QLD is the largest sand island in the world. 7. The Indian Pacific train has the longest straight section of train track in the world. 8. The Great Ocean Road is the world's largest war memorial. 9. 80% of Australian animals are unique to Australia. 10. Australia has the world's longest golf course measuring more than 1,350 kms long. 11. Australia is home to 21 of the world's 25 most venomous snakes. 12. It would take around 29 years to visit one new Aussie beach every day - there are 10,685 of them! 13. Australia is the 6th largest country in the world. 14. 91% of the country is covered by native vegetation. 15. 33% of Australians were born in another country. 16. Australia is the only continent in the world without an active volcano. 17. Australia is home to the longest fence in the world, the Dingo Fence. Originally built to keep dingos away from fertile land, the fence is now 5,614 km long. 18. The Australian dollar is considered to be the most advanced currency in the world - its waterproof, made of polymer and notoriously hard to counterfeit. 19. Australia is the only continent covered by a single country. 20. The world's oldest fossil was discovered in Australia - 3.4 billion years old. 21. Australia is home to more than 1,500 species of spiders.

[@debbrown1541]

Our birds are smart, Ryan Google where bird song originated.... you'll be surprised.

[@kitgoodyear9270]

Brds solving puzzles... There are videos out there that show you how Crows or Ravens solve puzzles. Very smart indeed. They understand things like water displacement and such.

[@smalltime0]

They also plot revenge on people who wrong them.

[@karenstrong8887]

The hawks learned from watching Aboriginal people. They set fire to everything to catch food. Now they call it being experts at burning off underbrush to stop bushfires.

[@graemejohnson9025]

Look up. Cockatoo, Magpies and Ravens. Solving puzzles to get to sead. One guy has a series of making more difficult puzzles each video.. they open bin lids to get to food.. undo latches to get out of cages..

[@allangoodger969]

But we still love you Ryan at your 69.9k subscribers 😍🤪🤪🤪🤪

[@TraumaQueen65]

Bushfires are a necessary fact of life in Australia. Many plants and animals benefit from fires. Aboriginals have been living WITH the land for 50,000 years

[@janemcdonald5372]

Crows have been shown to have tool use and problem-solving skills: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZK6fWWfesdpr5Y

[@IconOTS]

0:32 You don’t even have 40 thousand subscribers 🤭 (kidding) Keep up the good work!

[@suerobinson844]

Our animals are smarter than some people. I have seen the Whistling Kytes circling fire in the bush looking for prey. Often 100's km from a town in the N.T

[@sg-yq8pm]

"around the world there are human cultures that have lived alongside native wildlife for hundreds or (sic?) thousands of years" - All human cultures, everywhere, have always lived alongside native wildlife, they still do and they always will. Another mediocre 'primary school project' level educational youtube video.

[@AnnetteFulepp]

Ryan, look up the Lyre Bird. What it hears, it imitates.. truely amazing.

[@anitachopping]

Have you checked out the GIANT worms in Queensland!?

[@dougsinclair3596]

Wrongly accused by inconvenient association videos or pictures that don't prove beyond doubt. Supposition.

[@RylieReading]

could you please react to Liam Dowling Driving in The City VS The Country... but i think he has a few curse words so if you do choose to you should watch it before hands anyways luv the videos keep it up

[@kierengert6177]

If you want to see birds solving puzzles look up Ravens. Out of all bird species, Corvids like Ravens and Crows are the best at problem solving and are up there near parrots for general intelligence.

[@karenlafrentz]

One plant I know of, with a horrid name, a Blackboy HAS to be in a fire to seed. The hawks haven't been caught on video starting fires is because the places are very remote.

[@kennethdodemaide8678]

Their correct common name is grass tree.

[@karenlafrentz]

@@kennethdodemaide8678 Thank you Ken. I didn't know, I heard the name years ago when I was a young girl.

[@kennethdodemaide8678]

@@karenlafrentz I bought bowls and lamp bases in WA years ago and they were labelled as blackboy. I don't know the biological or species names but the common name used today is grass tree. You are right about them needing fire.

[@mizpahshearer1659]

These birds definitely do light fires. I've seen them and it is on film. As mentioned already, it was in a doco by David Attenborough.❤

[@Serge1074]

Ryan I love your attitude and interest you display towards Aussie Land,,not sure but maybe you should consider coming down under mate. And if you can , I would organise a place for you to stay while you’re here. You could start in Cairns then after a few weeks there make your way south, then towards Adelaide and eventually to Perth, then if you have time back up to Darwin, and yes mate if you need help let us know, we are a proud nation here, but like every other Country we still have issues,,,we are not perfect, but try to achieve, cheers mate, take care.

[@fionamcwilliam8703]

Yes our birds in Australia do use tools and solve puzzles. Sulphur Crested Cockatoos and Ibis have learnt how to open up garbage bins so they can get inside.

[@Rusty_Gold85]

After a Bushfire the Flora is already starting to sprout new buds . Its in the ecology here . Mostly due to a lot of Volcan activity for the last 5-8000 year ago nature has developed ways of reseeding

[@Ktmfan450]

If your property is burned by a Firehawk you might need a lawyer that specializes in bird law

[@axle.australian.patriot]

Our hawks are pretty kool, and smart :) We really need more of them starting fires as they are doing a great service to the environment. Yeah, they are a bit problematic around crops when doing burn offs, but you keep an eye on them and have the water cart close by :) > You would like our Black Cockatoos. They strip the branches off of a coastal tree so all of the seed pods fall on the ground and dry out. They come back later and eat the dried out seed pods. Thing is, that the trees have actually evolved and need the cockatoos to strip the branches off so the ones they miss can germinate :)

[@AizPlayzz]

Hey Ryan, I recommend you watch Aussie Thingz' new video about the best AFL goals so far in 2024 due to you reacting to their previous content.

[@karenlittle8041]

I saw this with my own eyes possibly 30 years ago in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory . It was hard to believe.

[@gacattack1234]

They.have a taste for BBQ. Starting a fire is the wrong term, spreading is more like it. Starting is a whole other level.

[@andysparks1973]

we also have "candlehawks" they rock up and light your birthday cake.

[@ridgeydidge4012]

They get shot if they did it in Victoria by the cfa. Our hawks and eagles aren’t that irresponsible.

[@Jeni10]

I’d rather hear the facts from the aboriginals. The area is too vast and too hot to just sit out there bird watching. If it’s ever captured on video, it will be by accident.

[@kristalpalace]

I have seen a hawk flying away from a fire with a small stick smoldering at one end but I didn't know why it was doing that until now as it flew out of sight and i didn't know what it did with it. crazy stuff.

[@wallywombat164]

I would love to read, see or hear Bruce Pascoe's expert knowledge on this subject.

[@jenniferharrison8915]

He has been proved not to be an expert or a native at all, better to check David Attenborough or an other naturalist!

[@bearpanda3889]

@@jenniferharrison8915 Well spoken.

[@wallywombat164]

@@jenniferharrison8915 But, but, but, how would Mr Attenborough no anything about Australia? He is not a Australian Noble Warrior.

[@leechgully]

How do you know he has any expert knowledge on the subject ? He seems to focus more on history and anthropology than animal behaviour. Why not just search out the experts who have actually studied it rather than go looking for something that may not exist ?

[@wallywombat164]

@@leechgully I was under the impression that Bruice Boy knew everything worth knowing about Australia. Are you inferring that Bruicie Boy is a frord?

[@majorrsoul2466]

If u dont like something we call it CHAT idk why just is 🤤👍

[@siryogiwan]

as he mentioned, there are stories from the dreaming, a couple of good videos talking about the connection between these birds and Aboriginal Lore if you look on here

[@KT-ki2nv]

I’m more scared of the Aussie bird’s that pick up snakes and drop them on you.

[@PSC-ll2dn]

I have seen this happen when I was on a trip in Darwin had a fair sized fire close to the road but not close to any business or home's. And all you see around it were alot of whistling kites

[@whymeeveryone]

the problem we have with animals which animal have the most intelligent besides humans ands that birds.

[@danielponiatowski7368]

we got lots of cool birds, i hit a tawny frogmouth the other night. he hit the roo bar and bounced off the windscreen so i got a good look at him.

[@timcetin372]

I’m sure I’ve seen footage of them doing it on a documentary on the a ABC

[@GarryMercer-tq5uo]

Well Ive been wandering this country for 70 years and Ive never seen it either

[@CHUNKYNUGGET666]

I’ve dated a few Birds in my time and I can say for sure birds start trouble! 😂

[@andrefischer5025]

I’ve seen that a few times up here in the NT when back burning is done close to the main roads

[@rudolfpeterudo3100]

It is now seen that native birds have been seen to flip over Cane Toads so that they deliberately avoid the poison sacs on the top side. So it appears that the invasive toad has now found a predator.

[@georgesmith4509]

sounds like another drop bears story to me get this bloke to quote a legitimate reference

[@jackbarrie6007]

Ryan if you would shut your mouth and listen you may learn something 😮

[@utubetrutharrowmichael-and9105]

Other than your ex misses it was news to me that that there is other birds down here that could burn your s***😂

[@helenmckeetaylor9409]

The NSW Waratah comes to life & flowers after a bushfire.

[@jaisabai4155]

Irritating presentation. It's not all about you Ryan 🙄

[@tearikibrown6685]

React to NSW vs QLD state of origin men Game 1🎉