Reaction To 20 ICONIC Australian Birds

[@robynmurray7421]

Some amazing birds not mentioned here include the lyrebird, the cassowary, king parrots,l, brolga, rosella and black cockatoo. The whip bird, bell bird, butcher bird and currawong have very distinctive calls.

[@jenniferharrison8915]

The Cassowary is not native to Australia, it was introduced to Qld only, it's native to New Guinea!

[@carokat1111]

@@jenniferharrison8915 I don't think you are correct on this. It's native to both Australia and New Guinea.

[@jenniferharrison8915]

@@carokat1111 NO! I learned that it is NOT an Australian Native but has adapted so perfectly to Queensland flora it is now an integral part of the rainforest environment! 😏

[@carokat1111]

@@jenniferharrison8915 Wikipedia, Bush Heritage Australia and others support what I've written. From the 'Wet Tropics Management Authority' Australian website, it states that cassowaries have been around since the super-continent Gondwana (where Australia and New Guinea were on one landmass). Three species remain in New Guinea but only one sub-species remains in Australia. The cassowary is therefore by definition native to both countries.

[@jenniferharrison8915]

@@carokat1111 👏

[@rosaliemaguire]

I love the birds in my backyard and see fairy-wrens, galahs, satin bowerbirds, magpies, masked lapwings (who only swoop/not attack), cockatoos and many others everyday. So blessed.

[@coasterblocks3420]

The thing I noticed most starkly when I travelled to the U.S. was the lack of birdsong in the morning. Here there is a cacophony of birds in the morning all competing to be heard.

[@Jen-eo1fh]

I call it my Morning birdsong symphony. Absolutely love waking up to that beautiful noise. 🇦🇺

[@chriswatson1698]

My favourite bird sound is the magpies carolling on moonlit nights. Loud and clear close up and softer and more muffled further way. Barbershop quartets for miles around.

[@stevenbalekic5683]

Oh there are way more than 20 unique birds from Australia...this list doesn't even cover just the iconic birds everyone knows.

[@paul-Ess]

Not missing very many was he? Lol

[@westy4973]

Crows gotta be the most hated. They sound like a bogan waking up after a big night on the turps, worst call ever.

[@stevenbalekic5683]

@@westy4973 I live in the suburb's of Adelaide so I haven't heard a crow "aark" since I settled here in 2000...you just don't see them here. Even though I absolutely adore them...rainbow lorikeets are the most annoying bird sound for me...I had some sort of conifer tree/bush near my bedroom window and the lorikeets loved eating the nuts that grew in it...OMG are they loud and noisy and irritating at 7am when you are trying to sleep.

[@brianandrea3249]

@@stevenbalekic5683 That's interesting. If you don't see them, why are the Adelaide Crows named after them ? I assumed they were iconic in Adelaide...

[@stevenbalekic5683]

@@brianandrea3249 IDK...maybe they don't like inner suburbs? I'm only 10-12 k's from the city.

[@paulstewart1557]

I think another iconic Australia bird is the Lyrebird - it is a phenomenal mimic (copying the sound of chainsaws even) but its name comes from its beautiful tail feathers which fan out like a lyre (the musical instrument) when in a courtship display.

[@Erizedd]

Absolutely. It's surprising he didn't have it on the list.

[@doubledee9675]

I've been fortunate to see and hear a lyrebird 3 times, all at Jenolan Caves. Mates who've done a fair bit of bushwalking between the caves and the Hume Highway say that quite a few are still there.

[@briancampbell179]

@@doubledee9675 , they are amazing. We have them where I live. I'm pretty sure that half the kookaburras I hear in the morning aren't. I had one running beside my car a couple of times. I did not dare try to overtake because I knew that the instant I tried, he would run in front of my car.

[@doubledee9675]

You are very lucky indeed.@@briancampbell179

[@jurgentreue1200]

Some years ago, a bird photographer I knew set up a hide in a local semi tropical rainforest. He wanted to capture some of the birds in the forest. He came back a couple of days later to have another go and in the distance heard the sound of a Nikon motordrive (they have a very distinctive sound). He couldn't work it out, thinking another photographer was in the area. The sound got closer, then he realised it was a Lyrebird that picked up the sound of HIS camera from a couple of days before.

[@alittlecreepywhenyou]

"You flaming galah!", it was made more internationally famous by Alf Stewart from the show "Home and away."

[@chrismaynard4117]

Bull,the saying was around way before Alf!

[@paulheywood2116]

Every friend who comes to Australia says the birds are on another level than anywhere else they have visited

[@Trananism]

I grew up in the blue mountains and we would always have Crimson Rosellas in our pear tree in the backyard picking at the fruit. I always loved their vivid red and blue colour and would often go out to watch them. We also had a lot of rainbow lorikeets, gallas and cockatoos etc

[@MarthaV2]

Anyone in Australia who has ever driven on a country road when a flock of gallahs is around, will recognise why they are referred to as 'flaming gallahs'. The word flaming is a polite version of the one most frequently uttered. The flock, flying in a close group, will fly about in an unpredictable manner, like each of them are saying "Follow me! - No, follow me! - No, ME!' This is why they are frequently seen in road kill. Any human acting in a similar manner will be called a 'flaming gallah'. Especially other drivers who act this way.

[@EmbraceThePing]

Yep. To avoid predators like hawks and eagles, galahs have an erratic flight pattern where they will just be flying and ... CRAZY IVAN MUTHA!! They are all over the place like a dogs breakfast. Even when they are just sitting on power lines, think groups around 50-60, playing, hanging upside-down, squawking, tearing into whatever their beaks can dig into (they are incredibly destructive). If someone is erratic, loud and probably a third thing then we call them a gallah, as in "Ya stupid flamin galah! Get the car back on the right side of the road before we all die!" Gallahs are funny. Human gallahs not so much.

[@chrismaynard4117]

​@@EmbraceThePinggalah, no double ll ..!

[@Jeni10]

I’ve never been swooped by a Magpie in my 73 years. The ones living around my house, know me and never need to swoop. We share the space. Plus it only happens for two weeks in the Spring, when the eggs are hatching and the babies need Dad to look after them while Mum hunts for food.

[@heidithesausage]

yes..... me either, they recognise a bird friendly face ☺

[@shankedit65]

Interestingly the magpies we had I our yard as kids absolutely loved me, I could do anything with them, but they hated my brother, im assuming he did something incorrect once, they have brilliant memories. Every year they would make a point of introducing their young to me, and it's everywhere I've been, the magpies just trust me, I can get a wild magpie hand feeding in no time

[@Jeni10]

I live in the Suburbs of Sydney and I hear Kookaburras greeting the dawn almost daily, but the birds living nearest to me are a family of Magpies, they feed in our lawn and perch on fences and TV antennae daily, and warble in their wonderful calls! ❤️🇦🇺

[@glenystranter6423]

Where I live, in Brisbane I get Kookaburras, magpies, butcherbirds (Pied and Grey), Pale-headed Rosellas, Rainbow Lorikeets, and even a Currawong or two. Not to mention noisy minahs and Olive-backed Honeyeaters.

[@sueburn536]

Here's a quote for you: "Australia is home to over 800 species of bird and of these around 350 are endemic. In pre-historic times songbirds began their worldwide conquest in Australia and now make up half of the world's 10,000 bird species." I've seen every bird in that video and many of them in my own back yard. Birds in Aus are next level!!

[@tropicsalt.]

Am I missing something here, or is this quote famous for its maths or irony? Not trying to be negative, honestly think I've missed something.

[@jessovenden]

Songbirds live all over but originated in Australia. They are more than half of the species in the world. Separate statement: Aus has >800 species, ~300 are endemic, so only found here. Better?

[@jessovenden]

A paragraph break could have made it clearer.

[@tropicsalt.]

@@jessovenden Thanks.

[@katehobbs2008]

@@tropicsalt.he means that songbirds (the subject of the sentence) now make up half of the world’s 20,000 species. The grammar is correct. 🙂

[@Benaminamon]

My favourite is the Eastern Rosella, it is another very colourful bird!

[@kreid2340]

I love kookaburras. I wake up to their laughing every morning.

[@bornodnoc1034]

Best Song for me is the Butcher Bird. Best looking is the Black Cockatoo or the Wedgetail Eagle

[@goaway2803]

I have a family of Butchies and the bubbies will beg to be hand fed, even when they can fend for themselves (actually like children)

[@elowishusmirkatroid4898]

I love the way he said you see the lorikeets innocently eating flowering plants. In my garden they chew up all the apples before theyre even ripe, and have the audacity to shriek at you when you try to chase them away.

[@derekhobbs1102]

I wouldn't mind if they at least finished one fruit before starting the next, but they just take a couple bites out of each and ruin whole tree.

[@jonlowing7907]

Before the tree died, I had cockatoos eating the mandarins in my front yard every year. I was happy for them to have them, given that they don't have the luxury of a supermarket for a feed whenever they want!

[@elowishusmirkatroid4898]

@@jonlowing7907 I leave bird food out for them. They have the apples for dessert.

[@jonlowing7907]

@@elowishusmirkatroid4898 🤣👍

[@IdoZatTimeInaVan]

The lorikeets get drunk on the fermenting nectar. TRUE. That's why they make the racket that they go. Stand under a tree and watch them. You'll see one eyeing off a nearby branch, thinking "yes - I can make it". Jumps and flutters furiously for a few seconds, and end up hanging upside down by one leg. Hilarious. 🤣😂😅🤪😜

[@anserbauer309]

I think if we're talking 'iconic' Australian birds, the budgerigar and cockatiel deserve a mention, if only because they are the two most commonly kept pet parrots in the world! Since you're based in Malaysia, you should check out Bird Paradise (formerly Jurong Bird Park) in Singapore. They had to move 3,500 birds from the old location to a brand-new facility which is now the largest bird-park in Asia. The old one was incredible. I'm told the new park is even better! Definitely an entire day-trip though, requiring comfy shoes!

[@vicksenful]

I had such a shock the 1st time a huge flock of budgies flew past me in the Pilbara ... I'd only seen the poor buggers in pairs or alone in small cages. When I think about how very communal they are that makes me very sad.

[@anserbauer309]

@@vicksenful Agreed. Both cockatiels and budgies are impressive to see flying in murmurations around waterholes, or coming in to roost on the bare branches of trees in the evening. It's something very few people in the world ever get to see; or even know about!

[@Laraine3]

Yes! And I believe the most commonly kept finch in the world is our little Zebra finch.

[@zalired8925]

Wild budgies are smaller than captive bred budgies but are a really bright flourescent green colour. Wild cockatiels are also smaller with much deeper colours. Used to get flocks of both on the property in northern South Australia as well as a small green ground parrot. Don't know what they were but also had tiny yellow birds the size of a small finch nesting under the bullnose veranda roof that went right around the old house. In the machinery and fertilizer sheds were those red mudnesters, robins? and at night if I had the ute in the shed with the interior light on they would fly in through an open window and hover around the interior light. I had to catch each one by hand to get them out.

[@anserbauer309]

@@zalired8925 That's wonderful! Not sure what the little yellow birds were... could be weebills or pardalotes or a number of others. The mudnesters in the machinery shed were most likely swallows. I have them nesting in my pump shed and if they are disturbed in the night, they'll fly around my porch light.

[@paulsheedy4650]

We are definitely the land of parrots. I live in Western Victoria, while leaving home one morning there were rainbow lorikeets in my birdbath. Sulphur crested cockatoos in the neighbours gum tree. Galahs and yellow tailed black cockatoos flying around, and this was all in the space of half an hour.😁

[@robertmurray8763]

I also live in western Victoria. We have so many different types of birds, animals, and reptiles. You can drive ten kilometres, and the species will change. I live on the top of the Great Divide, and it's very noticeable.

[@zalired8925]

On the NSW coast (Illawarra) and have the same 4 parrots all around me. Lorikeets in the front and back grevillea trees, cockys destroying my passionfruit vines and on the top veranda rail demanding through the door for their tiny pieces of watermelon each, yellowtail blacks flying over and feeding in the sand dunes infront of the lagoon right behind me and gallahs always feeding on the lawn or nature strips. Also get visits from eastern and crimson rosellas as well as the occasional king parrot down from the mountain rainforest. Also get flocks of correllas coming in to the coast when it's dry with huge flocks flying over doing their crying sounding calls one after the other.

[@adrianmclean9195]

The Australian Lyre Bird, has many you tube videos. Worth watching, as this bird can/does mimick virtually the sound of anything it comes across. It mimicks car alarms, camera shutters, other birds etc. Absolutely amazing. You won't believe, until you hear it for yourself.

[@redhammer9910]

Very short list but very enjoyable. I'm on the west coast so the red tailed cockatoo and the Major Mitchell are my favourites. When travelling around Mt Buffalo I had the pleasure of watching and listening to a lyabird, it was making a chain saw noise which was absolutely amazing . But nothing beats a flock of Major Mitchell's settling in a tree on the banks of the Gibb River which cuts through the Mitchell Plateau near Derby in the East Kimberley in WA, incredibly beautiful bird. Nice reaction.

[@garryellis3085]

I realise it's damn hard to list only 20 Aussie birds as we have over 800 species. He should have included at least 50 iconic birds cause he's had to leave so many out. Lyrebird, Black Cockatoo, King Parrot, Eastern and Crimson Rosellas, Wonga Pigeon, Boobook owl and Channel billed cuckoo. All the above birds were photographed in my back yard in southern Sydney.

[@jenniferharrison8915]

Hard to introduce a bird you have no photos of!? 🤨 You should share! 😄

[@taliesinllanfair4338]

It sucks no true owls were shown. I figure they are damn difficult to photograph at night. We did get the Tawny Frogmouth, not an owl, but fills a similar niche.

[@heidithesausage]

You're very lucky. I recorded two boobooks recently calling to each other, the night life is just as interesting as our day life.

[@heidithesausage]

@@taliesinllanfair4338 yes ... exactly what I was thinking.

[@doubledee9675]

What a wonderful bird is the pelican! Its beak can hold more than its belly can.

[@Laraine3]

He can hold in his beak Enough food for a week. I’ll be darned if I know How the hell he can! 😄

[@doubledee9675]

Indeed! We are amongst the few remaining who would know that.@@Laraine3

[@toni4729]

Not Australian. I've always been under the impression they're American. Still, you can learn something every day.

[@Laraine3]

@@toni4729 the pelican family is indeed worldwide however the species of pelican known as ‘Pelecanus conspicillatus’ is Australian.

[@doubledee9675]

That's certainly been my understanding for over 70 years now. Certainly the jingle is normally attributed to an American. @@Laraine3

[@lynnmoses3563]

I remember as a kid growing up in Sydney, my aunt used to have a very old galah as a pet, and every time we'd visit, it would mimic whatever we said....There are so many species of amazing birds in this country that we forget how lucky we are to have them....

[@xymonau2468]

Cassowaries and lyrebirds - the list is endless. 20 birds is a tiny sample.

[@springbird8479]

The Guardian Australian Bird of the Year is now being voted on , for those interested 🙂

[@elli4210]

I'm voting for magpie or powerful owl, both of which I see in inner-north Sydney.

[@jenniferharrison8915]

These are special birds he knows of and has photographed personally, he is obviously very passionate about this hobby, unique these days! Yes, I was often swooped by Plovers (Lapwings) as a young child walking across fields, absolutely terrifying warnings and sudden attacks from nowhere! 😩👍

[@indiathylane2158]

Me, too, I had my upper arm slashed by plovers as a teen crossing golf courses. Scary.

[@jenniferharrison8915]

@@indiathylane2158 😩

[@bigs1546]

You hear plovers before you see the buggers - they are as territorial as a magpie but thankfully smaller because I think they are angrier!

[@indiathylane2158]

@@bigs1546 How they don't break their wings is beyond me. They hit you so hard.

[@chrismaynard4117]

They are not plovers,not even in the plover family!!

[@margymckenzie7417]

i dont think any australian birds calls are annoying...not even the cockatoo. Cockies are loud and screechy but theyre fantastic. Galahs sound amazing in a flock and i think the magpies are the most iconic sounding bird and definitely a sound i miss when i travel overseas.

[@EL_Duderino68]

The noisy miner. The way they bug other birds too. Hey, they are doing their thing so it's OK but they do annoy me sometimes, let the lorikeets, magpies and crows alone.. I haven't seen them go a sulphur-crested cockatoos though, I'm not surprised :)

[@Erizedd]

Kookaburras laughing outside your window at the crack of dawn when you live rurally... it gets old fast, especially when you've had a hard week and just want to sleep in. lol.

[@aussiebornandbred]

​@@Erizeddi love listening to the kookaburra's first thing in the morning, usually about 40 minutes before sunrise,,,,, it's like an alarm clock😂😂

[@hannahcamac3331]

*cough* bush stone curlew. and they're nocturnal

[@Lucky-ei6yh]

Whichever bird happens to wake you up at 5am has the most annoying sound.

[@gidgitvonlarue9972]

I've personally owned many of these parrots - as my late father did. Australia is a true wonder for our birds. ALL over the world so many people own budgies and cockatiels as pets.

[@daciousinoz6028]

The galah has a raucous call and the flit around with great energy - when we call someone a galah it means we're calling them an 'idiot'.

[@springbird8479]

Great video, they are all beautiful, but that Masked Lapwing baby was adorable 😍

[@traceyandrob13]

Red-tailed black cockatoo and Red-rumped parrot also know as a Grass Parrot. He also didn't put any Rosellas or the King Parrot but the are in New Guinea too. We also have alot different finches

[@KingOfGamesss]

11:30 'Willie Wagtail'...In the Past I was Friends with a wild one on "my" Land property, it used to fly down and land on my hand when I called it. I heard later the reason is because my neighbor had been feeding them from their hand

[@barnowl.]

I was driving up a bush track on a small mountain when a wedge-tailed eagle swooped in front of the windscreen right next to it, covering all of the windscreen. The underside feathers were intricately detailed and so beautiful. Luckily I was able to stop and it was not harmed. My favourite sound in the morning is the gorgeous, melodic, warbling song of the Aussie magpie. It's song ha been tested by bird scientists and found to be the best singer in the world regarding its musical variety and capacity etc.. They are called magpies as the early settlers thought that they looked like English magpies.

[@barnowl.]

@@johnnichol9412 The early settlers thought they were similar. I do not.

[@michaelkentros5120]

Back in the 80s we had a Prime Minister Bob Hawke. Andrew Peacock was the Leader of the Opposition. Parliament was really an aviary at that point - just a hawk, a peacock and a bunch of noisy galahs.

[@mal1760]

Yes, he’s presented some of our best, like the Willy-Wagtail, but he doesn’t show two of my favourites: the Black Cockatoo and the Palm Cockatoo. Check them out, they’re stunning❣️

[@colinr1960]

The Willy-Wagtail I call the Lawnmower Friend. Whenever I mow the lawn one or two will be about, flying in and catching the little insects that get stirred up. Love them.

[@KittykatOz]

The cockatoo's wake me up screeching over the house every morning, and sitting on the balcony, in WA there are many black cockatoo's everywhere. I have lots Galahs, Rosella's and colourful parrots plus Magpie's out the front and top knot pigeons. I love listening to the kookaburras laughing in the trees across the road... I found the kookaburras great for spotting snakes (as do the maggies) but the best is all the beautiful colourful parrots scattered around my garden everyday.

[@indiathylane2158]

Pink & Grey Galahs, sadly, are declared pests in many regional WA areas.

[@KittykatOz]

🙄@@indiathylane2158

[@BlueSpiritFire1]

Two common birds that weren't mentioned are the Noisy Miner, which is almost more of a terror than magpies, I've found, but they have a beautiful and varied birdsong, and our Aussie Ravens. They have the most deranged and lovable call that usually consists of AUGH AUGH AUUUUUUUGH, and they're quite something. I think the photographer even managed to catch one of them making the noise in his recording at some point! Another one worth mentioning for their fantastic song is the Currawong! These three are extremely common birds and often overlooked, but they're such an unmistakable part of the background noise of Australia.

[@becsterbrisbane6275]

Ohhh, I love a butcherbirds call- and the immense effort they put into it too lol

[@TerribleTezza]

There are many more colorful birds we have in Australia. I also love the smaller finches we have. In particular there's the Gouldian finch, Zebra Finch and the Star finch. Amazingly colorful little birds.

[@andytaus1939]

I have a bunch of native trees in my front & back yards and every morning (sunrise) & evening (sunset) we get bombarded with the screeching & squabbling of a number of families of Rainbow Lorikeets who have their nests in the trees.

[@debbiejefford5187]

The birds in Australia are AMAZING!!! When I moved overseas I was shocked that I only heard occasional bird calls even in different environment. When I travel home I absolutely love hearing the birds at dawn and dusk. It is definitely something you miss.

[@MargaretGuppy]

Magpies often swoop and peck bike riders/joggers on bush paths; some people have even had their eyes damaged. Cockatoos are SO destructive to timber homes, window frames etc. I love red tailed black cockatoos as well as yellow tailed black cockatoos - so beautiful and their call is no where near as raucous as the yellow crested cockatoo. That said, the Major Mitchell and Gang Gang is also amazing. The King Parrot and various Rosellas are strikingly attractive. So many lovely birds in Australia!

[@yendor9078]

King Parrot was not on the list. I don't know why. With its iridescent vibrant red and green, it is a favorite of any international tourist I have met. One of my favorites too.

[@yendor9078]

@@johnnichol9412 Der!

[@Jen-eo1fh]

We have a pair visit us occasionally sitting on our verandah. Beautiful birds.

[@yendor9078]

@@Jen-eo1fh Yes they are beautiful, We had a lot visit us when we lived on The Great Ocean rd, until the Cockatoo's took over the King Parrots nesting holes. I hope they returned eventually. I now live in the Snowy mountains, backing on to the National park. I have many bird species here, from Lyre birds to Emu's, but I still miss my friendly, beautiful King Parrots.

[@Cruelaid]

Red Tailed black cockatoo is my favourite ❤ To me their call sounds so prehistoric

[@yendor9078]

I love watching them fly. They look like they are kind of flying in slow motion. Yeah and they sound like a dinosaur

[@johnoleary5293]

The Australian robins are only called that because of their resemblance to the European robins. They’re a different family altogether.

[@gidgitvonlarue9972]

I'd say as an Aussie - the birds of paradise are worth checking out too - found on many islands not far from Australia. Look up the David Attenborough film of the Birds of Paradise. Just amazing! Yep I'm a huge bird gal for sure - love them.

[@bigs1546]

I have a native holly bush on my property and it is great cover and protection from predatory birds for wrens and robins. I have Splendid Fairy Wrens all the time - when they are nesting/mating the boys get very territorial and will attack the enemy in your vehicles side mirrors! I solved the problem of wren poop and spit on the mirrors with 2 shower caps -when you come back to your car after work no mirror cleaning !! 😆 I also have Red-capped Robins here. Never had them before then 2 years ago had to get my "Simpson & Day" Field guide to identify the little man - so vivid in the holly bush!

[@zwieseler]

If you come to Perth, the Zoo has a couple of good walk thru aviaries, especially the wetlands one. You'll see a lot of birds from various areas in Australia.

[@marywood6593]

The rifle bird is my favourite it was only photographed not that long ago…..they were always heard but never seen because they are found up in the very top of trees the sound that they make sounds just like a rifle being shot and the mating dance is truly amazing…….Beautiful 🇦🇺 Australia.

[@gidgitvonlarue9972]

Those old Tarzan Hollywood movies and TV shows ALWAYS used to use kookaburra noises in the background - in AFRICA! Haha

[@shanegooding4839]

I live in Perth across the street from a park where I regularly see kookaburras, galahs, parrots, magpies, red-tailed black cockatoos, and more. Calling someone a galah is like calling someone a buffoon due to the bird often displaying clownish silly behaviour.

[@heidithesausage]

You're so lucky in WA having Red tailed black cockatoo's. Even luckier if you find a rare feather.

[@JayWhy1964]

If you walk down any Australian beach in summer you will see plenty of beautiful Aussie birds! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@pol2171]

I was on holiday, on the Great Barrier Reef with my two children and one of them brought the island emu into our hotel room. Our son used to hand around its neck and feed it biscuits. He really loved this emu.

[@suesmith7946]

We get white correllas at certain times of the year - they are LOUD and destructive! Lol. But they are fun to watch. I also get visited by a flock of red tailed black cockatoos which are gorgeous birds. We also get the odd kingfisher which is related to the kookaburra but much smaller and a striking blue colour. You also have the finches such as the Zebra, Grassfinch, double bar etc. The Sea Eagles are stunning birds too.

[@wildeturkey2006]

I love the sea eagle. It’s a stunning bird. About 6+ feet in length and hunts fish in the ocean. Always get a little too close with my drone. But they look amazing hovering over the Sydney NSW coastline.

[@murrayreed2881]

The sound of bell birds near a creek,so peacefull.

[@6226superhurricane]

australia has nearly 400 birds that are found nowhere else. what i like about Australia is because people have stopped hunting and hurting birds a lot of times birds are extremely relaxed around humans they will get really close or even land on you.

[@heidithesausage]

Very true I have a few red wattle bird's who visit every day will eat out of my hand.

[@brokensuave]

Simply put, if you like birds, you will love Australia. There are over 20 different bird species that frequent my yard alone. There are hundreds of different bird species in Australia, and something different where ever you go across the entire country. Also as mentioned briefly there are regional differences within the same species; some might have a slightly different colour or pattern, some might have a slightly different call, or might be slightly bigger in one place and smaller in another. I have a group of different birds that I see in the morning, and another handful of species that will visit in the midday sun, and a few different species again that hang out in the afternoon. Then after nightfall, you get the Frogmouths, the Curlews and the occasional Owl. If you add in the sound of the Flying Foxes (Fruit Bats), Possums, the odd Koala, the Frogs, Cane Toads, Cicadas, Crickets, Geckos, the neighbourhood Cats, and where I live, Cows, you get the sound of night time in Australia. Also if the Echidnas are feeling randy you'll know about that as well.

[@kirsty4503]

The Black Cockatoo is sooo beautiful

[@annebaker9408]

I get woken up by birds every morning.....they start long before the sun comes up. I have no idea how many bird types are around us and in our garden, but I know it has to be more than 12. The sound is amazing in the morning, and we love it. We live in the suburbs of Adelaide, but we do have a lot of trees in our garden and also street trees.

[@rhyshutchin5]

The Black Swan is what I like to call the bird of Western Australia. They can be seen in abundance on the "Swan River" here in Perth. They are also on the state flag as well as the coat of arms I was lucky enough to live in aproperty that banked a pond with fountains and these black Swans would come and land on the water and then paddle over to my back yard where I would feed them birdseed. Funny enough the estate I lived in was called Pelican Point Lake Estate yet Swans ruled the area 😂

[@briangill4000]

Good choice. I think they are endemic to W. A and were introduced to other areas of Australia.

[@mikfalk8019]

The black duck!

[@shaneb4612]

Bird of paradise are some of the most spectacular birds in the world. The majority of species are found in eastern Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and eastern Australia. #13 Willie wagtail, in a few first nations people's cultures the willie wagtail leads youngins into temptations. It's know as a pretty cheeky bird as well. One of my favourite birds here in Aus is the Bush Stone-curlew, 60% to 70% of people probably wouldn't know what this bird looks like. I'd say probably 80% to 85% of them would however know it's nocturnal whistle or shrill.

[@becsterbrisbane6275]

Went to a cafe on Brisbane northside for my birthday a couple of weeks ago, and was thoroughly kept entertained by a tiny, single willy wagtail terrorising the crap out of a poor magpie that was getting so fed up lol! Poor maggie was just looking for a decent feed and here's whippersnapper willie constantly pinching its butt lol. I also know it's springtime too as the rainbow lorikeets always come into the neighbours tree for a feed, wakes me up every morning, but love it.

[@bustinMR2]

As I'm watching this. The Rainbow Lorikeets are massing in the back yard. Expecting their afternoon feed. Love your vids. 👍

[@Reneesillycar74]

Living in suburban Sydney atm & we have quite a few of these birds. Kookaburras, Magpies of course, Sulpher Crested Cockatoos, lots of Lorikeets who like to steal the grapes from my vines on the front verandah, only eating the flesh & leaving a sticky mess of grape skins 😂, Tawny Frogmouths sitting on powerlines, a Masked Lapwing that insists on nesting in a neighbour’s garden, a new-to-the neighbourhood Bin Chicken & so many more! My favourite call is the Magpie, absolutely beautiful. I don’t have one that I dislike, even the Cockatoos bring a smile ✌🏼

[@stanleywiggins5047]

The Wedge Tail Eagle is bigger than the American Bald Eagle, & apart from looking different the bald eagle has evolved to hunt fish & only fish, where as our Aussie Wedge Tail Eagle hunts every thing from lizards, snakes up to adult Kangaroos. As far as this old Aussie is concerned, KING of the Eagles 😊😊😊

[@anserbauer309]

Agreed. I've seen a pair of wedgies going after roos twice in my life. Truly a remarkable scene to behold. They fly over my property every day and I always know when they're coming thanks to all the garden birds (especially magpies and ravens) screaming out warnings to take cover.

[@wendycayless]

Wedge-tailed Eagles are the 4th largest eagles in the world.

[@stanleywiggins5047]

@@wendycayless Maybe, but a full grown Wedge Tail is still bigger than a full grown Baldie, and has a much more diverse diet.

[@anserbauer309]

@@stanleywiggins5047 Depends on what people mean by "bigger"; wedgies are about the same weight and wingspan as bald eagles. Wedgies are longer though (because of the tail) so rank higher when all "biggest" measurements are considered together.

[@TheRubeeRose]

I loved the fairy wrens when they turned up at my place every year. The blue is absolutely stunning and very electric blue. The females are just brown! They are so tiny! Kookaburras every day (mornings and evening songs). There was a family that turned up on my deck railing - 2 adults and the 3 kids! The galah, is a very annoying bird! (3rd one). It's why we sometimes call people galah's! The Rainbow Lorikeet is drop dead gorgeous! And mostly in couples / pairs. Lock up all your BLUE bits and pieces if you've got bower birds around! Aren't they just beautiful. The thing I noticed most when I went overseas was the LACK of bird noises. You know when you're back home in Australia.

[@indiathylane2158]

What surprises me about Bower Birds is their ability to decorate their bowers with blue objects even when far into the bush. As a kid, I saw a couple of bowers, with a good collection of blue drinking straws and Bic pen caps or nibs. A long way from the supposed source, 300m, say, a picnic area. Blue straws I could understand, but Bic pen nibs????? Clever birds.

[@indiathylane2158]

​@@johnnichol9412 We meet again. I've only ever seen the dark blue ones. Royal or Navy blue you might call it. And 1 sliver of emerald green glass.

[@indiathylane2158]

@@johnnichol9412 You're lucky. Two bowers! I'd forgotten pegs. I visited a backyard in Berry, NSW, and just over the fence was a bower with lots of blue, including pegs. Aussies are blessed for wildlife.

[@indiathylane2158]

@@johnnichol9412 Southern highlands is beautiful. I'm jealous. I've got 2 acres but mostly cleared. 4 parrot species, 2 duck species on my dam. We're both lucky.

[@nolaj114]

When in Margaret River (SW Western Australia), the fairy wrens would hop onto the table where I was having my coffee and scones, after my jam. At my previous home, I lived about 10 minutes drive from the Perth CBD, but near an old established park and the bird life was amazing - even so close to the city... lorikeets, kookaburras, cockatoos, galahs, honey eaters, magpies, willly wagtails, a boobook (owl) and, of course, bin chickens!

[@sharondods7296]

The Rainbow Bee Eater is one of my favs but of corse I love them all. Oh and a real budgerigar is so stunning.

[@adammuggleton4107]

Australia’s birds are extraordinary. You can have personal interaction with all of them. I have!

[@Smileythesilent]

I live in the Blue Mountains, and the sheer number of birds is insanely awesome! I literally couldn't name them all. Right now we've got cockatoos eating citrus off our trees and they think it's hilarious to suddenly drop half eaten fruit on our verandah roof when dad's out there relaxing, and to be fair the screams are hilarious... sorry dad😂

[@niksmith314]

The only place I’ve ever seen a Lyre bird was in the Blue Mountains. I was so excited. My favourite Australian bird is the Western Rosella. It doesn’t come much closer to the coast than the Blue Mountains. Rosellas are very iconic Australian birds and the ‘Western’, is bigger and brighter and just gorgeous with its unique pop of Cyan Blue plumage.

[@Tt-qm2xg]

The birds here at not only unique and beautiful, they also have SO much personality and sass. The reason you can get so close to a lot of them is because they've adapted so well to suburbia and DGAF. Cockatoos are notorious for being destructive and naughty when you feed them (and then stop or don't give them enough/what they want). Yes I've been swooped by a plover (the last bird). As kids, and not knowing any better, we used to terrorise our local pair and bait them into chasing us. Willy wagtails are super hilarious to watch. We have one that patrols our yard and lays claim to all the bugs on it. Especially after my husband mows the lawn. He chases away all the magpies to get the best insect kills as he cuts the grass. We really are so lucky to live in such an ancient, beautiful place. So many people bring up the dangerous animals here (over-hyped for sure), but no one talks about the other friendly, amazingly unique animals we get to interact with every day.

[@tralee2006]

Bowerbirds mostly collect blue stuff but i know of some near army barracks that collect green (khaki bits from around the barracks)

[@barbararowley6077]

Every time I see a Lorikeet, which is every day, I can’t imagine living in country that only has drab coloured birds. We have Superb Fairy Wrens (slightly different to Splendid) in the front yard, Yellow Wattlebirds everywhere and lots of other different honeyeaters. Galahs, Corellas, and Sulphur Crested Cockatoos are very common, and I was delighted to see a pair of Yellow tailed Black Cockatoos one whilst walking a friend’s dog. They are HUGE. Willie Wagtails are probably my favourite small bird, though you rarely see them in town. They’re just so charming. I’m from a wetlands area, so the natural habitat of our beautiful Ibis. Never heard anyone call it a bin chicken until I moved to Melbourne. Please don’t be scared of our Magpies. It’s only a small percentage of the males that are dangerous for just a few weeks in Spring. I have a soft spot for Zebra Finches, as I worked with them a bit in second year Zoology, but the Gouldian Finch is incredible. Such glorious colour.

[@Newylife]

I have Rainbow Lorikeets, sulfer-crested cockatoos, corellas, doves, miners, Willy Wagtails, plovers, kookaburras, magpies, falcon, black cockatoos, little Lorikeets and galahs in my neighbourhood alone! I've even got an Easter water dragon that spends her days in my garden, and sleeps and brumates in my garage. Australia has some of the best wildlife in the world ❤

[@BassMatt1972]

Of the approx 300 species of the parrot family have been recorded throughout the world, Australia has 56 species. And with around 850 species of birds in Australia, 45% are found nowhere else . I live in Suburban Adelaide, we have a creek down trhe road. We have Koalas and Kookaburras living in the area and we are 20 mins from the City.

[@AutonomousDonk]

I'm in the Barossa and we have an oval a minutes walk away and sometimes it will have hundreds(no exaggeration) of cockatoos, cockatiels, galahs, magpies, and Adelaide Rosellas all on the ground. It's awesome to see.

[@cpcoultertweedles7216]

I currently live in Sydney, and I usually hear kookaburras and fruit bats in the morning. I don't mind them. However, when I lived in Canberra, we had fruit trees in the back yard which attracted sulpher-crested cockatoos. Nothing more annoying than being woken up at dawn by 20 cockatoos screaming their heads off right outside your window as they shred all the plums and aprocots.

[@clarebear7007]

On our property, we have Willy Wag tails, Blue Wren’s, Gallah’s, Kookaburra’s, Magpies, native budgerigars, (which are stunning) bush turkeys, sulphur crested cockatoos & black cockatoos. It’s a beautiful alarm to wake up to. Love your enthusiasm ✌🏼🦘🦜

[@cobloaf1]

Inner West Sydney. In my backyard I get Cockatoos, Galahs, Corellas, Noisy Miners, Common Mynas, Rainbow Lorikeets, Kookaburras, Pigeons, Magpies, Currawongs, Peewees. There was a random Brushturkey that showed up for a few days a while back and a pair of Plovers (Masked Lapwing) that had a chick on the front nature strip a month or so ago. A bunch of Bin Chickens hang around the dumpsters at the pizza shop around the corner. I'm from country Queensland and I'm amazed at the diversity of birdlife in Sydney.

[@citrinedragon1466]

The fairy wrens have that colouring only in breeding season, as far as I know.... and the hens are all brown

[@indiathylane2158]

I think most males get that vivid blue/indigo colouring in autumn or spring depending on the breeding season. It's a treat to see them.

[@Angelicwings1]

“Flamin galah!” Is basically Aussie for “you goose!”

[@davidcruse6589]

He didn't even scratch the surface of bird varieties Rosella bird is beautiful as well then black cockatoo Owls bat's the list is endless Their a barker bird which wakes people the magpie you seen yoldles and keeps people awake I personally love it We do take it for granted as grown up with this all our lives and think it's normal and be everywhere in the world But through the internet you learn how lucky we are here to have so much wild life and why so many passionate to save all animals Alot of these birds you see in suburbs as well

[@cobih1405]

Staying in a small cabin in the Otway's in Victoria. Door open enjoying the winter sunshine when a Fairy Wren & his 2 lady friends decided to come inside and check if there were any crumbs on the floor. My first time up close with them ❤

[@mikeellis4345]

Get on a plane and get down here mate. Summer is on the way the beaches are fantastic, bird life here is .. err.. you’ll love it here!

[@xymonau2468]

New Zealand has a lot of beautiful ground-dwelling birds, and New Guinea has the birds of paradise, which can't be matched anywhere else. Oz has a couple of birds of pradise, but nothing like New Guinea. Storm birds and curlews are the most annoying. Plus Willie Wagtails at night when they are nesting they chatter all night. Masked lapwings have soft spurs, and they are not very dangerous. They prefer to pretend to be crippled to attract ganger away from their young. There are thousands more varieties of birds here. I get galahs, hundreds of rainbow lorikeets, and pale faced rosellas, plus other red and green parrots - more then that but those are the most common. I get ibis, spoonbills, white faced herons, great blue herons, pacific koels, pheasant tailed coucals, a variety of raptors, large and small, crows, all the black and white birds like magpies, butcher birds, willie wagtails, peewees/mud larks/magpie larks (all the same bird), noisy miners, spangled drongoes, black faced cuckoo shrikes, blue faced honey eaters, scarlet robins, all shades and sizes of doves and pigeons, and many more here because we live out of town, even though it's just a normal sized back yard. We get wood ducks and plumed whistling ducks, and a couple of other varieties of ducks at times. I'm in south east Qld.

[@davidcarter4247]

Where I live in rural New South Wales in its corellas that grate. They get about in large flocks screeching like banshees.They are late sleepers or roost some distance from me because the sun is well and truly up when they descend on the farm behind us. They are not part of the melodic dawn chorus that starts at the first hint of light. My experience of Australian birds is they are comfortable around humans. Some such as magpies can be almost tame, others will walk fearlessly around you like the ibis, most will keep a wary distance and some can be skittish. Some visitors to Australia can find the close presence of birds frightening but most people enjoy seeing nature up close. Most iconic Australian birds are unpalatable. Have heard it said the best way to eat a galah is stew it with an old boot. When cooked, throw away the galah and eat the boot.

[@NickHand-c9l]

The budgerigar really deserves a mention on this list, for reasons other than the obvious. They look far more beautiful in the wild, with the sun on them, than they do in captivity. In particular, a large flock of budgies, flying in uncanny coordination with one another, is a spectacular sight (for an example of what I mean, watch the Australia episode of David Attenborough's Seven Worlds, One Planet). Another honourable mention, in my opinion, would be the rainbow bee-eater, although getting a photo of one is pretty challenging.

[@ahdoodeclair]

The Australian robins are only distantly related to the European robins. They were called "robins" because they reminded the early settlers of the robins in England.

[@brettrobson5739]

Wedgies are awesome. Black swans are majestic. Of the (literally) hundreds he missed, the black cockatoo is my favourite. When you get close, you see the dinosaur heritage. They look at you like you're just some passing annoyance.

[@adriandunne4382]

Black swans have been introduced to many places both in Australia and elsewhere where they do not occur naturally. The Dawlish black swans in England are famous.

[@kerrydoutch5104]

Not sure if I misunderstood but black swans ARE native to Australia discovered in WA in 1697 by a Dutch navigator. They have since been introduced to many overseas countries.

[@kerrydoutch5104]

@@johnnichol9412 we might be talking in circles. But they do occur naturally in WA and many other regions across Australia. And they are very much present in the parklands of Lake Monger in Perth, and now the Swan River in South Perth

[@gidgitvonlarue9972]

In our backyard here in Blackheath, Blue Mountains - we have white cockatoos, King parrots, Rozellas, black satin bower birds, Wattle birds, Magpies and sometimes rarely Gang gang cockatoos! The king parrots are the most friendly and will eat seed from my hand

[@vhwft]

The orange Robbin sitting in the tree looked just like an American hunter lol. With its Fluro orange vest and cap sitting in a tree sitting around.

[@TheMimiSard]

I have to agree that magpie song is actually very nice. I was alerted to this fact one time I listened to the song on a video during a time when there were almost no magpies in my area (Brisbane suburbs, we also had a lot of crows in the area at the time). I think I have been hearing some around in recent times.

[@robynmarshall8817]

There is also black cockatoos that you may see them mostly found in the bush

[@louannelawson4916]

He missed out the Cassowary flightless bird native to Northern Australia, next to somewhat relating to the Emu.

[@louislynge]

The term "Flamin galah" come from the Galah's when they gather in large numbers (which they do frequently), they get kinda drunk on their food and they carry on like pork chop :P My favourite bird is the Black Cockatoo (red tail - there are yellow and glossy's as well, all of which are beautiful). This is my skin name from the local Tribe and they are very significant birds in the Lore of Tribal people.

[@homesteadhermits8467]

Pheasant coucal, look like a little Griffin. I got to hold a fledgling and relocate it off the road. They look amazing.

[@SiilanPies]

Being a type of kingfisher, kookaburras are carnivorous. We get them out at my parent's place all the time, and me and Mum used to hand feed them chunks of leftover meat (not sure what kind) about once a month. Didn't want them getting dependant on us, but they'd perch on our back veranda and we'd give them a little treat every so often.

[@kyliechapman6499]

Sometimes we have cockatoos out on the power lines and they are all screeching so loud we can’t hear the t.v. We have rainbow lorikeets in our backyard every day. They are so pretty.

[@Me-bq4pd]

This video, as another has already stated, does not even scratch the surface. We live 80ks north of Sydney and most of the birds covered in that video, can be found in our area. Just a couple of other birds that visit our yard include King parrots, Noisy minors, Rosellas, Plovers, Bush turkeys, Bastard birds, Corellas, Yellow tail black cockatoos.