Vote for your favourite Australian bird

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Originally Posted by johntins

Easy Peasy. Once you have seen a mob of Galahs, on a really hot day, when it is just about to rain, turn upside down on the branch or wire they are on, and hang their wings to take in the cooling of the rain, you'll be hooked. I've never fogfotten it, so it's the Galah for me..


However, I do like parrots...

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Cockatiel do the same thing

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Originally Posted by Eevo

Cockatiel do the same thing

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Indeed, they do. Many parrots and cockatoos do. I have seen it in many places. What sets the Galah apart is that you can see the behaviour across three states and two territories, and yet few people report on it.

Now, eevo, I am not an ornorthologist, and cannot continue this debate: can you?

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Originally Posted by johntins

Seen it, have you Mark? Who said Galahs were dumb?

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Nothing dumb about Galah's mate...[wink11]...... I seem to have a lot of favourite birds..[bighmmm]

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/11/703.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/11/704.jpg

Pretty, cheeky, little buggers as well. Lovely shots, Mark.

I like boobies.
And a shag.
Usually on the beach.

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Originally Posted by Toxic_Avenger

I like boobies.
And a shag.
Usually on the beach.

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Bats aren't birds, and many people have wrong ideas about them, but they are native, they are important and they can be beautiful. Here is a four week old orphaned female learning to fly.
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Recently had WIRES rescue a very pregnant forest bat (micro bat) from my place, about the size of a medium mouse. Attachment 132490

Was actually on Halloween [emoji316]

Rainbow lorikeets. There are big mobs of them around here. They love the flowers on my bottlebrushes and the nuts on the bookleaf pines. When the gums in a nearby park are flowering and dripping nectar the rainbows turn up in mobs particularly if the nectar is fermenting. They start to "talk" loudly, squabble and fight, can't get airborne, and some fall over onto their backs and can't get up. Like a mob of dolled up sheilas on Melbourne Cup Day.

Very entertaining.

Black kites. Watched them catching and eating grasshoppers about two feet in front of a header windscreen a few years ago - fascinating!