I agree they look cuddly! But they actually catch venomous snakes with those long beaks. They fly the snake up to a branch and hit the snake against the branch until they are sure the snake is dead before eating it. When cheeky Kookaburras steal sausages from Aussies eating them outside at a BBQ, the kookaburras’ instinct kick in and they bash the sausage against a branch to make absolutely sure it’s dead before eating it. I think the dawn caroling by Magpies is the most beautiful sound in Australia.
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No, birds usually *don't* get along with other species. Magpies are one of the species that tend not to get along with others - though they aren't as aggressive as piping shrikes or noisy mynas. A magpie will swoop you from behind - a noisy mina will play "chicken" - they'll fly straight at you and turn away at the very last second - they don't care if you're looking straight at them. And they attack other birds in the same way. I've seen a group of birds chasing a sulphur-crested cockatoo around. BTW I have what I believe are a mated pair of rainbow lorikeets that visit my garden regularly. They are *gorgeous*
Many a moon ago I was applepicking in the Basket Range, part of the Mt Lofty Ranges outside of Adelaide. It was a small orchard in a valley surrounded by hills heavily shrouded in early morning fog. In the distance a kookaburra sounded, followed by another then another. The calls continued round and round the hills and then dozens of them started all at once. It went on for some time through the fog from every direction. We were surrounded by their calls. It was magical.
Kookaburra are awesome… we can’t keep them as pets … we had one that we found that fell out of its nest and it survived till about it till 18 months it was free to roam … at the moment we have a daily visiting kookaburra and its parents ( all related to the young one we helped). The parent birds are very big kookaburras visit about every 2 weeks. We see them eating lizards but they do eat meat ( beef mince) from the dogs bowl and by hand feeding. Once they trust you they are happy to take food from you…. Also the kookaburras with blue feathers on their back are generally males, and the ones that have brown are usually females. They are territorial and their young birds stay with the parent birds for several years and help bring up the next generation… really really cool birds. Their laugh is terrific and loud, I mean really loud, if you make the right kookaburra laugh they join in.
Kookaburras sing their songs to warn other kookaburras families to keep the hell out of their territory. Magpies have their own family groups and their own languages. The morning chortles of magpies is so delightful.
If you look at a Kookaburra and then look at a Kingfisher you can see instantly that Kookaburras are in fact just giant Kingfishers. They hunt in a very similar way in that they sit up high and dive down onto their prey. Kingfishers dive into water for fish but Kookaburras dive down into grasslands to hunt lizards, snakes and insects.
Because Sydney, where I live, had lots of trees throughout the suburbs before high density high rise started to dominate the landscape, wild life could readily survive among us. Kookaburras, budgerigars, cockatiels, sulphur crested cockatoos, galahs, rosellas, king parrots, rainbow lorikeets, finches, butcher birds, magpies, pee wees, crows, etc., could mostly interact freely and safely with Aussies and we grew up with this. Never catch and cage any wild bird and especially NEVER cut their flight feathers. Most birds are intelligent and mostly lovable critters. Please respect their space, grace, beauty and friendship.
We feed Magpies, Lorikeets, Wattle Birds, Rosellas, Minahs, Crested Pigeons and Corellas.At first the Lorikeets and Correllas were aggressive to the other birds but now they know there is enough food for all, eating is peaceful
She has lots of vids like these. She now has chickens run free around the yard and some ducks have made their home in the pool too. Kookaburras are funny as sometimes if you're having a BBQ they might try and swoop down to pinch a sausage as they think it's a big worm or snake. Once they grab it they throw their head backwards and forwards slapping the sausage till it's dead.
Don't know your cause, there are many out there, mine is onion intolerance. My cure is carrot, found out by mistake. Migraines are not for chickens, they can get you to shut down, as in your brain gives in and stops working, lights out, unconscious, in traffic that's very dangerous. Mine make me throw up, then feel like i'm under water for 3 days, or very sub-par. I have avoided onion for about 40 years now, it's in everything so it's hard, yet not getting migraines any more is worth it.
Like many birds, Kookaburras tend to be territorial during their mating season. For the most part, their "laugh" sound, is usually heard when they are announcing their presence or claiming their territory. They are often heard at the break of day. For that reason, they are known as the bushman's alarm clock.
So many stories I could tell. Once up in Cairns there was the biggest Kookaburra on my hills hoist washing line spinning around. There was a little Willy Wagtail attacking him over and over as he was in his area. The Wagtail was so much smaller that the Kooki who wasn’t too bothered, but you could hear his beak snap as he warned the little bird off. He had all these tiny feathers in his beak. Was funny as to watch. The Wagtail eventually won as Kooki had enough of being harassed. Like having a 7 yr old child kicking an adult in the leg!!
Have watched rainbow lorikeets hassling kookaburras, too. Worked as a team - with no particular outcome in mind, apart from stirring, as far as I could tell
In the suburbs we get a lot of noisy minors, which are about half the size of a kookaburra and extremely territorial. They will gang up and drive off other birds (especially smaller ones like wrens, which is a great pity). Kookaburras and magpies, which are also very territorial, aren’t anywhere near as aggressive towards other birds, unless they are an actual threat - they tend to put up with them. I had a magpie and kookaburra sitting side by side on the back deck, and the magpie was singing the most beautiful liquid song - effectively telling the kookaburra to f*ck off! The kookaburra just sat there smiling at him😀.
All native animals are protected here in Oz. So you can't cage or keep them unless you are a wildlife rehab with a license.Once a bird or animal has been nursed back to health they are released back into the wild
Those of us whose childhood was in the 1970s or earlier all learnt and sang Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree..... and the last and original line was Gay Your Life Must Be. In the last 30-40 years kids sing Happy Your Life Must Be.
I’m from the UK, N.Ireland, born in 79. I was in the Girl Guides as a kid and I’m pretty sure it was there that we used to sing Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree, fairly regularly. I guess it probably would have been late 80’s, and we definitely sang “how gay your life must be” as the last line of the song. I have been living in Australia for 15 years, my older sister first came here around 25 years ago & my parents moved out here about 12 years ago. The bird life in Australia is one of our favourite things about living here. We have a Family of Maggies that have been visiting us for food for years. They bring their new babies to meet us once they leave the nest and they often sit outside the front or back door singing for their breakfast/supper!! We also have 3 different mated pairs of Rosella’s that will stop by daily for bird seed if it’s outside. Unfortunately the Corellas became too much and they can be so destructive so we had to stop putting out seeds every day unfortunately.
All these birds are wild but they often make friends with humans. The Magpies in particular are very intelligent and many of us have daily interactions with them. They seem to seek human friendship and can recognise their friends from their foes.
I USED TO LIVE IN THE EASTERN SUBURBS OF PERTH, I HAD KOOKABURRAS WHICH I FED MINCE TO, MAGPIES I FED GRATED CHEESE AND SEEDS ALONG WITH THE OCCASIONAL MINCE, EAGLES, BLACK COCKATOOS, AND OTHER SMALLER BIRDS
Hi Tonia. If you go back and listen to this video when the woman goes outside, you can hear a whole menagerie of different birds just in her backyard. One of the things that surprise visitors to Australia is the variety and shear numbers of bird life. And you said you once kept a parakeet as a pet. This bird is an Australian native.
My mother loves feeding all the local birds and they will come inside like these birds . Kookaburras and magpies tame up easily but Mum has currawongs too and ravens.
We recently got an ibis hanging around. I called her Gladys and she has been recently joined by a dodgy boyfriend. We have many birds in our yard but the bin chickens are very territorial and causing problems.
@@paulphotios3920 I'm pretty lucky living on a farm . We have a wedgetailed eagles nest in a valley so you can look down into the nest . We have pictures of this years chick from just when he hatched all the way up to him fledging . Beautiful big bird of pray .
My sister in law used to have Kookaburras visit her house and would sit with us when we were having snacks, helping themselves to what ever was on the table. Currently I have three magpies, a mother and two juveniles that visit my backyard, they are very friendly. I usually give them dry cat food. Definitely not bread. I also have Ravens, (Australian variety) Cockatoos and Rosellas along with the occasional Galah. For these birds, I feed them a variety of bird seed. The Australian Magpies is not a Corvid as is the American and English Magpie.
Iconic birds. They also like to start a call at 3am outside my bedroom when woken. Personally I have a soft spot for Currawongs. Another Australian call and the falling dive when flying always looks playful to me. One thing I missed when living overseas was the amazing sounds of the birds of Australia, day and night.
We had a bird feeder on our verandah & a variety of birds came there from cockatoos, pidgeons & rainbow lorakeets. The small local,eets would see off all the other birds. The king parts are my favourites. If we left the door open they would come in, sit on the chair, have a look around,say hello , maybe take some seed out of our hand & fly out. Any bird will be friendly if you feed them & encourage them. Lyn
Quite a few summers ago, in Sherbrooke Forest Vic, there was a Kookaburra that people fed from the Barbecue area, that much Meat and Sausages, it became So Fat it couldn't Fly !
Some birds do and others don’t. They also have their own persinalities. That song about the kookaburra is actually a round. We sang it in school in Australia too.
Kookaburras tend to be in family groups near my place. If there is a baby amongst them then they will all feed it. I made the mistake of giving some food to one and then they all appeared out of nowhere. They appeared to have moved on this year as haven't seen any for a while. There is a pair of Maggies that have been in my area for years. They are very friendly and fussing around in my backyard. They will often help me garden, but all they want is the grubs lol. Each year they have babies and will 'introduce" their offspring to you. They are very good parents to their babies but when it's time for the young to leave they can be very brutal towards them. There was one warbling for a couple of hours yesterday. I'm assuming it was a young one just learning to sing
Aaaw, that was such a cute video, kookas are the best, and they can be pretty friendly, unless you're a snake. They sometimes catch snakes and beat them to death against a tree branch, then eat them, lol. Sorry to hear you haven't been well, I hope you're feeling much better. ✌❤
My local Mum and Dad Magpies, knock on my door with their beaks each morning , as soon as I open the door, they run inside, go into the kitchen and stand next to fridge, because they know that's where I keep the mince meat I feed them.
They really are intelligent and kind birds. Only have to watch out for them during the Spring, but even then it's only a % that swoop so it's not all bad - rest of the year, they're delightful birds. I haven't had to worry for a long time, the maggies near my house (including their offspring) eat insects and worms from our front yard, and seem to be comfortable being near us when we're outside, so they get to know you and teach their young that these people are ok and to not worry about them - haven't been swooped (near my house at least) in well over a decade.
Mum magpie brought this season's kid with her yesterday and today. Koels are a sign of summer. The koels that haven't learnt the whole song yet have you waiting to hear the rest of it. Only trained wildlife carers should have our wildlife in enclosures for rehabilitation. I do offer small amounts of seed for the crested pigeons and cat biscuit for the magpies on the grass outside my house. I am trying to educate passers-by. You can be a "bird person" without having them as pets. Help out at a wildlife rehabilitation centre, even if it is answering phones and office things.
lol had my first kitchen interaction with my local magpies just yesterday! They are pretty wary, so it takes work to get them to land on you. I have them plucking food from my hand so far.... working on them landing on my arm. Magpies get on alright (outside of nesting season) with most other local birds, but they hate Indian Myna's and I am using the magpies to drive out the Indian Myna's. Not sure what food she had.. but the container is the same as I have been getting full of meal worms. Magpies seem to love them. I love rainbow lorikeets, but they decimate our plum tree each year. It's starting to look like the magpies are 'protecting' the plums this year form the lorikeets
My da was born in a bush town out west in NSW and he always called kookas "haha pigeons", and I guess it stuck because my kids and I, none of whom were born in the bush, also call them the same. 😁 A note on the pronunciation, the kooka part of the name is the same sound as for cook, book, look etc,,, and the burra part is a short sharp sound for the "u", like in bun, gun, nun, etc... we don't use the harder "r" sound but the softer "ah" sound for words with an "r" in the spelling 😊 Hope this helps 😉 🙃🐨🇦🇺
TE! Sorry to hear about the migraines. I guess you know the drill - darkness, water, quiet, paracetamol, coffee and time. I get them too but I'm lucky it's only my vision that goes (impossible to type) but no headache. Just started watching so I'll come back later to comment the guano out of it.
I have lots of wild birds, mainly the many parrot families, visit and although I do put out wild seed/grain/nut mix and water out on the balcony and fresh water, I do not encourage them to come inside. However a wily sulphur crested cockatoo figured out how to open the fly screen sliding door and find, rip open the bird food packet, spreading the best part of 5kgs all over the floor.
Its so nice to see wild birds trusting humans, I have worked with Kookaburras in the UK but owing to them being territorial in captivity it best to house them separate.. I have a very mixed flock of parrots that live in my home together and not caged, I do have to take care during breeding times though. My flock includes Macaws, Cockatoo, Amazons, Eclectics, grey, ringnecks, grass parakeets, Senegal, lovebird plus others.
From seeing them everyday - Magpies don't fly off when you get close whereas Kookaburras take off when you get within 50 ft of them. Wedge Tail Eagles take off when you get closer than 300ft of them, when they could probably eat you. Kookaburras are good snake killers - there are plenty of videos on YT showing that.
That was a nice cute video something chill to watch kookaburra eat insects small invertebrate. lizards, snakes and even mice sorry to hear about the migraines no apologies needed totally understand ❤❤
One magnificent bird of Australia, they are like this so much, their laugh is glorious to hear , but don’t be fooled they kill venomous snakes in minutes without fear
My friends in Sydney came back from holidays, their back door smashed in like somebody used a axe on it , the house was destroyed, the police came took fingerprints then said do you feed the kookaburras? Lady you should have told them you are going away, it was the kookaburras not a burglar, they slowly had to stop feeding so there weren't dependent on them. Hilarious
You might enjoy some of the videos online about cockatoos in certain Sydney suburbs that have learned to be extremely cunning at opening wheelie (garbage) bins. The videos are generally very short so you might need to string a few together.
They are pretty smart, and kind of super friendly. Depends on where you live but they will come and visit regardless if you feed them. Magpies can swoop when they have babies. They eat insects lizards prob ham or some chicken. We have cockatoo and king parrots 🦜 😅
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I found it really interesting that the magpie family that visited us at home used to come running up to acknowledge and greet us when we met them at other places, like the local park, primary school, Showgrounds etc
I lived across the road from the local primary school... my parents loved the local magpie 'clique' and fed em every day,, by hand ...we were the ONLY kids in our school that NEVER got swooped. :0 Loved Magpies ever since, and they love me, Mr 'never swooped '....haha! My friends were so jealous, and I have respected Maggie's ever since. X
Maggies (Magpies) are very territorial in breeding season, & are known for their quite dangerous swooping... BUT if u make friends with them they're quite happy to share their space with u, for they have an excellent memory. At the end of the vid u can hear another bird calling... a PeeWee, smaller black & white birds who are very territorial, & are my snake alarm where I live. Been here 5 years & only had a few snakes they've told me about (rural Queensland). Kookas are wild but also very intelligent, with the best laugh ever!! The only time, besides a zoo/sanctuary, that they can be in captivity is when they've been injured to the extent that they can't be returned to the wild, & I'm pretty sure u still need a permit for this. x
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Most of our animals are friendly, birds are interesting, they'll build trust and bring their family around to visit if you feed them and it will be generational.
G'day! Fun Facts:- There are 3 species of Kookaburra the ones in this video "Laughing Kookaburras plus the Blue Winged Kookaburra ( far northern Australia) and the Shovel Billed Kookaburra which lives in New Guinea and they are all species of the Kingfisher family with the Laughing Kookaburra being the world's largest "kingfisher." Cheers!
Standing in the doorway talking English isn't gonna work. She needs to keep the flight path clear and talk in Burra and Maggie. If she went further outside and poked at the ground they would come over for a look. "Ooooo, what have you found?"
I have 6 breeds of birds on my property, Kookaburras {Kookies} Magpies {Maggies} Rosalas {Rosies} Bush Parrots {Bushies} Suphar crested corkatoo {Sulphies} Willywagtails {Willies}. I put wild bird seads on my desk for them everyday.
As for the migraines - You poor thing - I can certainly relate. I hope they improve soon. As for the kookaburras and magpies, I am glad that she said that she was feeding them insects. We are seeking a lot of deformities in magpies and other birds from nutritional deficiencies, due to well-meaning people feeding birds with things like mince, chicken and seeds (in the cases of parrots, like cockatoos), but this doesn't meet their needs. In the cases of magpies, for example, they don't get the calcium and other nutrients that they need from the exoskeletons of the insects, which can also impair their offspring. In cockatoos, we are seeing birds with issues with their feathers not developing properly. Best practice is to not feed them at all. I do feel truly blessed to have the birds that we do here. I live on the fringe of the Blue Mountains National Park and we get ever so many birds. We have tiny little Splendid Fairy Wrens and Eastern Spinebills, to Kookaburras and Powerful Owls, Australian Ravens and Magpies, Cockatoos, King Parrots and Crimson Rosellas, Satin Bower Birds, Superb Lyrebirds and Tree Creepers... I could go on and on. I had Emus (the largest remaining flock in Sydney) near my old house, but they don't come up here. I live in birding paradise. They may look fluffy, but they are terribly strong and powerful. They love eating snakes. Maggies are one of the most feared birds in Australia, but I think this is an unfair title. They are incredibly intelligent and remember faces and can communicate "friendly people" to other flocks. I've only been swooped a couple of times, all when on a bike with a helmet on. As soon as I took my helmet off, they saw my face and heard my voice, they knew I was friendly and they calmed down. The ones around here love to come up to me and investigate me and my camera, especially the babies. Thank you for appreciating our beautiful birds.
The Kookaburra"s sound is used in a lot of jungle films even though they are not indigenous to that jungle. Very strange. People usually think they are monkeys.
From what I've seen, most birds get along just fine except with the predatory ones like eagles, hawks, falcons etc, the same appears to be true with most herbivores too.
Insectivore is the classification of animal food preference. Like carnivore, herbivore, omnivore. Meal worms and crickets for the insectivores usually. Yum.
That kookaburra song is one to be careful with. The owners of the copyright took the band Men At Work to court over the use of a tiny section of the song that sounds similar in " Down Under" , it was in a question on a music trivia TV show which alerted them to it. They went to court were awarded royalties, it's that bands most well known song. Sad story to it. It wasn't intentional .
Kookaburra's are predatory and will quite happily attack and kill snakes and small rodents as prey. While both magpies and kookas are intelligent enough to recognise food and play nice to get it, they are both territorial and can be aggressive. There's a video of a magpie swooping on a woman during mating season and it manages to slide it's beak INSIDE her lower eyelid in an attempt to peck at her eyes. Edit: Another common Australian bird that is kinda awesome are the butcher birds, so named because they like to hang their prey (insects, small lizards, other birds etc) on trees to strip the meat off them.
Yeah this is a real thing in Australia, does take a few weeks to make friends with birds, have done in the past.....but will say they can get dependent on you and that's not good
For migraines we have a fix, 100% success rate when done properly. I think the procedure is called a decapi-tation. sincere apologies, bloody Australian humor got the better of me. I hope you continue to feel better. Enjoying your uploads.
Hey Tonia, I know that Americans have their own version of the English language, but I have to say and you have probably been told many times before, but just incase you didn't know that Kookaburra is pronounced Cookaburra!
Fun Fact: The riff played by the flute in Men At Work's hit "Down Under" is based on that Kookaburra song. Although it wasn't all good news for them about it. They were sued many years later in 2009 for copyright.
Kookas and maggies are both meat eaters, so they love eating other birds, lizards, frogs etc. Also, re the migraines, have you tried soaking your feet in very hot water (as hot as you can tolerate).
You really really need to look up the story about Molly and Peggy. Its a beautiful story about a magpie named Molly and Peggy the dog. It almost had a heart breaking ending but ended up good in the end. Molly even barks like a dog now 😂 th-cam.com/video/2kchBWdJSY8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=edosNr2BBN19LFMW
Short answer no .Birds are like a lot of people & don't like their space being invaded. Butcher Birds & Magpies will kill doves sometimes, Willy Wagtails try to annoy every other bird that comes near them just like Noisy Minors do. Kookaburras will kill & eat other baby birds.
Headaches can be from poor neck support, twisting neck when sleeping. Maybe your head was jammed up against the headboard/wall, maybe it's a crappy pillow. Give the tendon area below the knobby area behind your ears a massage while you roll your head.
Kookaburra's will steal baby birds out of the nests of other birds, so when there are chicks in nests, Magpies will attack Kookaburras. Magpies are wonderful parents and will protect their babies from all animals and humans. If you walk/ride past a Magpie nest when the chicks are learning to fly, expect to be swooped on by a magpie. A lot of birds hang out in Australian backyards, besides kookaburra's and Magpies. There are Rainbow Lorikeets, King Parrots, Cockatoos, Galahs, Corellas, Plovers etc etc. Some people do cage Cockatoos but I think it is very wrong, because they are meant to be free. It is illegal to cage most of the Aussie birds, thankfully.
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Kookaburras might seem cute but they can actually hunt snakes as part of their diet, only the smaller snakes as you might imagine as their more normal diet are small lizards and large insects. Some claim that they grab the snake and fly high to drop the snake to stun and then repeat many times to kill it. As many snakes can move quite freely among trees and often just launch themselves from high up to get to the ground or the next tree quicky this method of stunning or incapacitating a snakes by just dropping it from a height does not seem that it would, on the face of it, be very effective. Repeated strikes with their hard beak would seem much more effective. Kookaburras are species members of a fairly worldwide distribution of Kingfishers which by their name would seem to imply mostly hunters of fish. However Kookaburras do not hunt fish as a general rule.
I once fed a Kookaburra on my deck one morning. The next day there were 4 Kookaburras sitting on my deck!! Don't do it. BTW, I don't know if you've seen this fun video of a Kookaburra diving through frame & stealing a sausage: th-cam.com/video/MyXlp_AIZWg/w-d-xo.html
OK did you know The Top 40 Bird songs have you any idea what is the most popular bird song you ever heard and its the most familiar sound to *ALL AUSTRALIANS* no its NOT THE Kookaburra that's placed at number 13 The Number One Bird Song is The Common Koel. Most Koels migrate from Australia to New Guinea and probably eastern Indonesia and even further north, but some remain in northern Australia. During breeding season, they are found in northern and eastern Australia, south to about Nowra, New South Wales, although occasional birds are encountered further south. The Common Koel is a brood parasite, that is, it lays its eggs in the nests of other bird species. Common hosts are the Red Wattlebird,Anthochaera carnunculata, friarbirds, the Magpie-lark, Grallina cyanoleuca, and figbirds. A single egg is laid in the host's nest and once hatched the chick forces the other eggs and hatchlings out of the nest. When the chick leaves the nest it roosts in the outer branches of a tree, cheeping incessantly while the significantly smaller parents desperately search for sufficient food to satisfy the nagging youngster. This is a full-time job, as the young Koel will grow to nearly twice their size. Eventually, it migrates northwards, usually later than the adults, to return as a breeding bird the following spring. Koels appear to be becoming more common in cities, such as Sydney and Brisbane, perhaps because of the abundance of ornamental plants and weeds that produce berries. However, another factor that probably contributes to their increasing abundance is the proliferation of some of their hosts, particularly the Red Wattlebird.
It's really hard for Americans and Europeans to grasp what it's like living in a country that is not only full of wildlife but where the wildlife lives quite literally right up to your doorstep. Culturally we are very protective of our wildlife and have all these systems in place to come to their aid of required. Generally you don't feed them but you give all animals the space to live their normal lives. In effect in most cases we live side by side. Swim with a dolphin, sit quietly with goggles and watch whales swim by 80 meters away in crystal clear water. Or sit at a table eating with kangaroos around you peacefully munching away on the grass. The key is by never being a threat to them they grow up not fearing you. It's a bit different further out in the bush because animals rarely encounter people. That said how animals congregate depends on the species. I have never seen flight birds attack water birds. But flight birds like magpies will attack other birds, we have a lot of magpies around us but seldom see a sea gull or a crow. Tiny Willie wagtails attack other birds in groups of three, they hate crows as well. Most species are regional. The beautiful Major Mitchell is only found around the Mitchell Plateau near Derby in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia. The Sulpher crested cockatoo is/was only found in North Queensland. The Lyer bird Victoria and so the list goes on and some birds like the bloody crows are found everywhere. Did I mention crows are not popular ? After getting a bit of an insight into the incredible bird diversity take some time to learn about the incredible array of nocturnal animals, I love camping in the bush, amazing what hovers just inside the campfire light. Keep learning, with good fortune and some determination you could arrive in our shores a full bottle of knowledge, from there it's just seeing is believing.
Don't apologize for not being well. I used to suffer from migraines quite badly until I changed my diet, so I know how you feel. Take care of your health first. The butcher bird doesn't get along with any other kinds of birds. If another bird flies into their territory they will gang up on it and surround it to prevent it from escaping. They will then attack it and kill it. Hence the name. You can't keep any native animal as a pet. You have to be officially licensed to care for them. It's ok if they freely visit you and leave when they want. You should not make them dependent on you for food.
The worst birds are the rosellas if you feeding the birds and they turn up they chase all the other bird away they’re nasty little things or if magpies turn up all the other birds stand back and wait for them to finish
Kookaburras are a serious predator and will eat small birds whole, they are not as cute as they look. They are not threatening to humans but they are savage hunters that have no problem dealing with venomous snakes.
I agree they look cuddly! But they actually catch venomous snakes with those long beaks. They fly the snake up to a branch and hit the snake against the branch until they are sure the snake is dead before eating it. When cheeky Kookaburras steal sausages from Aussies eating them outside at a BBQ, the kookaburras’ instinct kick in and they bash the sausage against a branch to make absolutely sure it’s dead before eating it.
I think the dawn caroling by Magpies is the most beautiful sound in Australia.
I have had to stand by the BBQ waving a broom around to stop the kookaburras stealing the sausages off the hotplate! 😅
They can visit but we can’t cage them or take possession of them, they are wild creatures and we respect that.
I live in Brisbane,Australia....I still don't know why I love seeing people from overseas, rate Australia.........I love your show and you would love Australia ❤
No, birds usually *don't* get along with other species. Magpies are one of the species that tend not to get along with others - though they aren't as aggressive as piping shrikes or noisy mynas.
A magpie will swoop you from behind - a noisy mina will play "chicken" - they'll fly straight at you and turn away at the very last second - they don't care if you're looking straight at them. And they attack other birds in the same way.
I've seen a group of birds chasing a sulphur-crested cockatoo around.
BTW I have what I believe are a mated pair of rainbow lorikeets that visit my garden regularly. They are *gorgeous*
Many a moon ago I was applepicking in the Basket Range, part of the Mt Lofty Ranges outside of Adelaide.
It was a small orchard in a valley surrounded by hills heavily shrouded in early morning fog.
In the distance a kookaburra sounded, followed by another then another.
The calls continued round and round the hills and then dozens of them started all at once.
It went on for some time through the fog from every direction.
We were surrounded by their calls.
It was magical.
The joys of being a Skip yeh...we are blessed, we properly are. X
Kookaburra are awesome… we can’t keep them as pets … we had one that we found that fell out of its nest and it survived till about it till 18 months it was free to roam … at the moment we have a daily visiting kookaburra and its parents ( all related to the young one we helped). The parent birds are very big kookaburras visit about every 2 weeks. We see them eating lizards but they do eat meat ( beef mince) from the dogs bowl and by hand feeding. Once they trust you they are happy to take food from you…. Also the kookaburras with blue feathers on their back are generally males, and the ones that have brown are usually females. They are territorial and their young birds stay with the parent birds for several years and help bring up the next generation… really really cool birds. Their laugh is terrific and loud, I mean really loud, if you make the right kookaburra laugh they join in.
Kookaburras sing their songs to warn other kookaburras families to keep the hell out of their territory. Magpies have their own family groups and their own languages. The morning chortles of magpies is so delightful.
Magpies also let others know what humans are not a danger! I have crows and magpies who love me and are wild and free.
If you look at a Kookaburra and then look at a Kingfisher you can see instantly that Kookaburras are in fact just giant Kingfishers. They hunt in a very similar way in that they sit up high and dive down onto their prey. Kingfishers dive into water for fish but Kookaburras dive down into grasslands to hunt lizards, snakes and insects.
Because Sydney, where I live, had lots of trees throughout the suburbs before high density high rise started to dominate the landscape, wild life could readily survive among us. Kookaburras, budgerigars, cockatiels, sulphur crested cockatoos, galahs, rosellas, king parrots, rainbow lorikeets, finches, butcher birds, magpies, pee wees, crows, etc., could mostly interact freely and safely with Aussies and we grew up with this. Never catch and cage any wild bird and especially NEVER cut their flight feathers. Most birds are intelligent and mostly lovable critters. Please respect their space, grace, beauty and friendship.
We feed Magpies, Lorikeets, Wattle Birds, Rosellas, Minahs, Crested Pigeons and Corellas.At first the Lorikeets and Correllas were aggressive to the other birds but now they know there is enough food for all, eating is peaceful
She has lots of vids like these. She now has chickens run free around the yard and some ducks have made their home in the pool too.
Kookaburras are funny as sometimes if you're having a BBQ they might try and swoop down to pinch a sausage as they think it's a big worm or snake. Once they grab it they throw their head backwards and forwards slapping the sausage till it's dead.
@@Danger_Mouse_00 Omg too funny lol
Tonia, please do not apologise for being unwell, fond regards from Sydney Australia
Don't know your cause, there are many out there, mine is onion intolerance. My cure is carrot, found out by mistake. Migraines are not for chickens, they can get you to shut down, as in your brain gives in and stops working, lights out, unconscious, in traffic that's very dangerous. Mine make me throw up, then feel like i'm under water for 3 days, or very sub-par. I have avoided onion for about 40 years now, it's in everything so it's hard, yet not getting migraines any more is worth it.
Like many birds, Kookaburras tend to be territorial during their mating season. For the most part, their "laugh" sound, is usually heard when they are announcing their presence or claiming their territory.
They are often heard at the break of day. For that reason, they are known as the bushman's alarm clock.
Tonia, it’s cook-ah-burrah. 😃 They are part of the kingfisher family but unique to Australia.
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Kook era brahs
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Largest member of King Fisher family and quite often have a couple of blue feathers.
We used to sing the song "Yellow Submarine" at school but I think most of the kids didn't live in one.
So many stories I could tell. Once up in Cairns there was the biggest Kookaburra on my hills hoist washing line spinning around. There was a little Willy Wagtail attacking him over and over as he was in his area. The Wagtail was so much smaller that the Kooki who wasn’t too bothered, but you could hear his beak snap as he warned the little bird off. He had all these tiny feathers in his beak. Was funny as to watch. The Wagtail eventually won as Kooki had enough of being harassed. Like having a 7 yr old child kicking an adult in the leg!!
Have watched rainbow lorikeets hassling kookaburras, too. Worked as a team - with no particular outcome in mind, apart from stirring, as far as I could tell
used to have a Kookaburra coming inside every day and sit on the window sill. My cat just stared at it.
In the suburbs we get a lot of noisy minors, which are about half the size of a kookaburra and extremely territorial. They will gang up and drive off other birds (especially smaller ones like wrens, which is a great pity). Kookaburras and magpies, which are also very territorial, aren’t anywhere near as aggressive towards other birds, unless they are an actual threat - they tend to put up with them. I had a magpie and kookaburra sitting side by side on the back deck, and the magpie was singing the most beautiful liquid song - effectively telling the kookaburra to f*ck off! The kookaburra just sat there smiling at him😀.
All native animals are protected here in Oz. So you can't cage or keep them unless you are a wildlife rehab with a license.Once a bird or animal has been nursed back to health they are released back into the wild
Those of us whose childhood was in the 1970s or earlier all learnt and sang Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree..... and the last and original line was Gay Your Life Must Be. In the last 30-40 years kids sing Happy Your Life Must Be.
I’m from the UK, N.Ireland, born in 79.
I was in the Girl Guides as a kid and I’m pretty sure it was there that we used to sing Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree, fairly regularly.
I guess it probably would have been late 80’s, and we definitely sang “how gay your life must be” as the last line of the song.
I have been living in Australia for 15 years, my older sister first came here around 25 years ago & my parents moved out here about 12 years ago.
The bird life in Australia is one of our favourite things about living here.
We have a Family of Maggies that have been visiting us for food for years.
They bring their new babies to meet us once they leave the nest and they often sit outside the front or back door singing for their breakfast/supper!!
We also have 3 different mated pairs of Rosella’s that will stop by daily for bird seed if it’s outside.
Unfortunately the Corellas became too much and they can be so destructive so we had to stop putting out seeds every day unfortunately.
All these birds are wild but they often make friends with humans. The Magpies in particular are very intelligent and many of us have daily interactions with them. They seem to seek human friendship and can recognise their friends from their foes.
I USED TO LIVE IN THE EASTERN SUBURBS OF PERTH, I HAD KOOKABURRAS WHICH I FED MINCE TO, MAGPIES I FED GRATED CHEESE AND SEEDS ALONG WITH THE OCCASIONAL MINCE, EAGLES, BLACK COCKATOOS, AND OTHER SMALLER BIRDS
Hi Tonia. If you go back and listen to this video when the woman goes outside, you can hear a whole menagerie of different birds just in her backyard. One of the things that surprise visitors to Australia is the variety and shear numbers of bird life. And you said you once kept a parakeet as a pet. This bird is an Australian native.
My mother loves feeding all the local birds and they will come inside like these birds . Kookaburras and magpies tame up easily but Mum has currawongs too and ravens.
We recently got an ibis hanging around. I called her Gladys and she has been recently joined by a dodgy boyfriend. We have many birds in our yard but the bin chickens are very territorial and causing problems.
@@paulphotios3920 I'm pretty lucky living on a farm . We have a wedgetailed eagles nest in a valley so you can look down into the nest . We have pictures of this years chick from just when he hatched all the way up to him fledging . Beautiful big bird of pray .
My sister in law used to have Kookaburras visit her house and would sit with us when we were having snacks, helping themselves to what ever was on the table.
Currently I have three magpies, a mother and two juveniles that visit my backyard, they are very friendly.
I usually give them dry cat food. Definitely not bread.
I also have Ravens, (Australian variety) Cockatoos and Rosellas along with the occasional Galah. For these birds, I feed them a variety of bird seed.
The Australian Magpies is not a Corvid as is the American and English Magpie.
Iconic birds. They also like to start a call at 3am outside my bedroom when woken. Personally I have a soft spot for Currawongs. Another Australian call and the falling dive when flying always looks playful to me. One thing I missed when living overseas was the amazing sounds of the birds of Australia, day and night.
Gumtrees were introduced to California by Australians in the 1850s
They are still there
About the same time Australia got Monterey pine and Monterey cypress and I wish we could send them back.
Kookaburras are monogamous and mate for life so you often hear them "laughing" at each other
A neighbour had an old single male kookaburra which was a nut case.
@paulphotios3920 just calling out for a mate maybe
We had a bird feeder on our verandah & a variety of birds came there from cockatoos, pidgeons & rainbow lorakeets. The small local,eets would see off all the other birds. The king parts are my favourites. If we left the door open they would come in, sit on the chair, have a look around,say hello , maybe take some seed out of our hand & fly out. Any bird will be friendly if you feed them & encourage them. Lyn
11:50 yep, it's called the "Arm bus".
Quite a few summers ago, in Sherbrooke Forest Vic, there was a Kookaburra that people fed from the Barbecue area,
that much Meat and Sausages, it became So Fat it couldn't Fly !
Some birds do and others don’t. They also have their own persinalities. That song about the kookaburra is actually a round. We sang it in school in Australia too.
Love your bird vids dude. As. Skip. X
Kookaburras tend to be in family groups near my place. If there is a baby amongst them then they will all feed it. I made the mistake of giving some food to one and then they all appeared out of nowhere. They appeared to have moved on this year as haven't seen any for a while.
There is a pair of Maggies that have been in my area for years. They are very friendly and fussing around in my backyard. They will often help me garden, but all they want is the grubs lol. Each year they have babies and will 'introduce" their offspring to you. They are very good parents to their babies but when it's time for the young to leave they can be very brutal towards them. There was one warbling for a couple of hours yesterday. I'm assuming it was a young one just learning to sing
It looks like she is feeding them crickets
Aaaw, that was such a cute video, kookas are the best, and they can be pretty friendly, unless you're a snake. They sometimes catch snakes and beat them to death against a tree branch, then eat them, lol. Sorry to hear you haven't been well, I hope you're feeling much better. ✌❤
Most birds don’t like eagles and hawks, but eagles and hawks like them. Yum.
My local Mum and Dad Magpies, knock on my door with their beaks each morning , as soon as I open the door, they run inside, go into the kitchen and stand next to fridge, because they know that's where I keep the mince meat I feed them.
They really are intelligent and kind birds. Only have to watch out for them during the Spring, but even then it's only a % that swoop so it's not all bad - rest of the year, they're delightful birds. I haven't had to worry for a long time, the maggies near my house (including their offspring) eat insects and worms from our front yard, and seem to be comfortable being near us when we're outside, so they get to know you and teach their young that these people are ok and to not worry about them - haven't been swooped (near my house at least) in well over a decade.
Mum magpie brought this season's kid with her yesterday and today. Koels are a sign of summer. The koels that haven't learnt the whole song yet have you waiting to hear the rest of it.
Only trained wildlife carers should have our wildlife in enclosures for rehabilitation. I do offer small amounts of seed for the crested pigeons and cat biscuit for the magpies on the grass outside my house. I am trying to educate passers-by.
You can be a "bird person" without having them as pets. Help out at a wildlife rehabilitation centre, even if it is answering phones and office things.
lol had my first kitchen interaction with my local magpies just yesterday! They are pretty wary, so it takes work to get them to land on you. I have them plucking food from my hand so far.... working on them landing on my arm. Magpies get on alright (outside of nesting season) with most other local birds, but they hate Indian Myna's and I am using the magpies to drive out the Indian Myna's. Not sure what food she had.. but the container is the same as I have been getting full of meal worms. Magpies seem to love them. I love rainbow lorikeets, but they decimate our plum tree each year. It's starting to look like the magpies are 'protecting' the plums this year form the lorikeets
My da was born in a bush town out west in NSW and he always called kookas "haha pigeons", and I guess it stuck because my kids and I, none of whom were born in the bush, also call them the same. 😁
A note on the pronunciation, the kooka part of the name is the same sound as for cook, book, look etc,,, and the burra part is a short sharp sound for the "u", like in bun, gun, nun, etc... we don't use the harder "r" sound but the softer "ah" sound for words with an "r" in the spelling 😊
Hope this helps 😉
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I can sympathize with you're migraines young lady I've had them for over 50yrs and it's a pain like no other.
I’m sorry you go through them too. It’s most definitely not fun. 💜
TE! Sorry to hear about the migraines. I guess you know the drill - darkness, water, quiet, paracetamol, coffee and time. I get them too but I'm lucky it's only my vision that goes (impossible to type) but no headache. Just started watching so I'll come back later to comment the guano out of it.
@@marklane58 Lol thanks. Yeah I took some migraine meds and napped a lot 😂
I have lots of wild birds, mainly the many parrot families, visit and although I do put out wild seed/grain/nut mix and water out on the balcony and fresh water, I do not encourage them to come inside. However a wily sulphur crested cockatoo figured out how to open the fly screen sliding door and find, rip open the bird food packet, spreading the best part of 5kgs all over the floor.
Its so nice to see wild birds trusting humans, I have worked with Kookaburras in the UK but owing to them being territorial in captivity it best to house them separate.. I have a very mixed flock of parrots that live in my home together and not caged, I do have to take care during breeding times though. My flock includes Macaws, Cockatoo, Amazons, Eclectics, grey, ringnecks, grass parakeets, Senegal, lovebird plus others.
From seeing them everyday - Magpies don't fly off when you get close whereas Kookaburras take off when you get within 50 ft of them. Wedge Tail Eagles take off when you get closer than 300ft of them, when they could probably eat you. Kookaburras are good snake killers - there are plenty of videos on YT showing that.
That was a nice cute video something chill to watch kookaburra eat insects small invertebrate. lizards, snakes and even mice sorry to hear about the migraines no apologies needed totally understand ❤❤
@@firebrand2619 ❤️ thank you
One magnificent bird of Australia, they are like this so much, their laugh is glorious to hear , but don’t be fooled they kill venomous snakes in minutes without fear
My friends in Sydney came back from holidays, their back door smashed in like somebody used a axe on it , the house was destroyed, the police came took fingerprints then said do you feed the kookaburras? Lady you should have told them you are going away, it was the kookaburras not a burglar, they slowly had to stop feeding so there weren't dependent on them.
Hilarious
You might enjoy some of the videos online about cockatoos in certain Sydney suburbs that have learned to be extremely cunning at opening wheelie (garbage) bins. The videos are generally very short so you might need to string a few together.
@@AnneMorley-up1qv I’ve done one video of cockatoos in Sydney so far 😊
I have a family that sit on my antenna every morning at dawn and wake up the neighbourhood with their early morning alarm.
They are pretty smart, and kind of super friendly. Depends on where you live but they will come and visit regardless if you feed them. Magpies can swoop when they have babies. They eat insects lizards prob ham or some chicken. We have cockatoo and king parrots 🦜 😅
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I found it really interesting that the magpie family that visited us at home used to come running up to acknowledge and greet us when we met them at other places, like the local park, primary school, Showgrounds etc
I’ve had the same thing happen to me, like they’re saying can we have something to eat now?
I lived across the road from the local primary school... my parents loved the local magpie 'clique' and fed em every day,, by hand ...we were the ONLY kids in our school that NEVER got swooped. :0 Loved Magpies ever since, and they love me, Mr 'never swooped '....haha! My friends were so jealous, and I have respected Maggie's ever since. X
Maggies (Magpies) are very territorial in breeding season, & are known for their quite dangerous swooping... BUT if u make friends with them they're quite happy to share their space with u, for they have an excellent memory. At the end of the vid u can hear another bird calling... a PeeWee, smaller black & white birds who are very territorial, & are my snake alarm where I live. Been here 5 years & only had a few snakes they've told me about (rural Queensland). Kookas are wild but also very intelligent, with the best laugh ever!! The only time, besides a zoo/sanctuary, that they can be in captivity is when they've been injured to the extent that they can't be returned to the wild, & I'm pretty sure u still need a permit for this. x
On a side note... I use healing frequencies on youtube for multiple health challenges, including chronic pain (Fibromyalgia & spinal issues). I know they have some for migraines. Type in Migraine healing frequencies & keep trying them til u find what works for u. When i get bad nerve pain there's a few I use & within half an hour I realise the pain has eased/gone. Make sure you're hydrated (u probably know this) & avoid chemicals, fragrances/perfumes, as they can trigger pain responses (years with Fibro has taught me a lot). U also should never apologise for being human, nor for having a life away from YT. x
One last comment.... I don't own the birds at my house, they own me. I just pretend to be in control.
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Most of our animals are friendly, birds are interesting, they'll build trust and bring their family around to visit if you feed them and it will be generational.
Tonia, have you subscribed to Loutre yet? Otters are gorgeous!
My ex-husband used to keep birds and he would buy bags of lcrickets to feed them. He had a mynah also which used to eat banana.
G'day! Fun Facts:- There are 3 species of Kookaburra the ones in this video "Laughing Kookaburras plus the Blue Winged Kookaburra ( far northern Australia) and the Shovel Billed Kookaburra which lives in New Guinea and they are all species of the Kingfisher family with the Laughing Kookaburra being the world's largest "kingfisher." Cheers!
Standing in the doorway talking English isn't gonna work. She needs to keep the flight path clear and talk in Burra and Maggie. If she went further outside and poked at the ground they would come over for a look. "Ooooo, what have you found?"
The classic Men at Work song "Down Under" samples.the kookaburra song.
I have 6 breeds of birds on my property, Kookaburras {Kookies} Magpies {Maggies} Rosalas {Rosies} Bush Parrots {Bushies} Suphar crested corkatoo {Sulphies} Willywagtails {Willies}. I put wild bird seads on my desk for them everyday.
Insectivore means “eater of insects”, like herbivores eat grass and leaves, and carnivores eat meat.
To be complete.. omnivores eat many of the aforementioned... 😊
As for the migraines - You poor thing - I can certainly relate. I hope they improve soon. As for the kookaburras and magpies, I am glad that she said that she was feeding them insects. We are seeking a lot of deformities in magpies and other birds from nutritional deficiencies, due to well-meaning people feeding birds with things like mince, chicken and seeds (in the cases of parrots, like cockatoos), but this doesn't meet their needs. In the cases of magpies, for example, they don't get the calcium and other nutrients that they need from the exoskeletons of the insects, which can also impair their offspring. In cockatoos, we are seeing birds with issues with their feathers not developing properly. Best practice is to not feed them at all.
I do feel truly blessed to have the birds that we do here. I live on the fringe of the Blue Mountains National Park and we get ever so many birds. We have tiny little Splendid Fairy Wrens and Eastern Spinebills, to Kookaburras and Powerful Owls, Australian Ravens and Magpies, Cockatoos, King Parrots and Crimson Rosellas, Satin Bower Birds, Superb Lyrebirds and Tree Creepers... I could go on and on. I had Emus (the largest remaining flock in Sydney) near my old house, but they don't come up here. I live in birding paradise.
They may look fluffy, but they are terribly strong and powerful. They love eating snakes. Maggies are one of the most feared birds in Australia, but I think this is an unfair title. They are incredibly intelligent and remember faces and can communicate "friendly people" to other flocks. I've only been swooped a couple of times, all when on a bike with a helmet on. As soon as I took my helmet off, they saw my face and heard my voice, they knew I was friendly and they calmed down. The ones around here love to come up to me and investigate me and my camera, especially the babies.
Thank you for appreciating our beautiful birds.
The Kookaburra"s sound is used in a lot of jungle films even though they are not indigenous to that jungle. Very strange. People usually think they are monkeys.
From what I've seen, most birds get along just fine except with the predatory ones like eagles, hawks, falcons etc, the same appears to be true with most herbivores too.
AUSSIE HERE. "COOK-A-BURRA". MAGPIES A KOOKABURRAS ARE OPPORTUNISTS. YOU GOT FOOD... YOU GOT A FRIEND. OTHER BIRD?... LYREBIRD.
Insectivore is the classification of animal food preference. Like carnivore, herbivore, omnivore. Meal worms and crickets for the insectivores usually. Yum.
Primarily, kookas eat lizards and insects. They are a variety of kingfisher
That kookaburra song is one to be careful with. The owners of the copyright took the band Men At Work to court over the use of a tiny section of the song that sounds similar in " Down Under" , it was in a question on a music trivia TV show which alerted them to it. They went to court were awarded royalties, it's that bands most well known song. Sad story to it. It wasn't intentional .
Most birds can get along mostly, except raptors which want to eat other birds.
fancy having a fire place where the ave temp is 85F. Kooka has no fear, he's happy killing a ten foot snake.
Kookaburra's are predatory and will quite happily attack and kill snakes and small rodents as prey. While both magpies and kookas are intelligent enough to recognise food and play nice to get it, they are both territorial and can be aggressive. There's a video of a magpie swooping on a woman during mating season and it manages to slide it's beak INSIDE her lower eyelid in an attempt to peck at her eyes.
Edit: Another common Australian bird that is kinda awesome are the butcher birds, so named because they like to hang their prey (insects, small lizards, other birds etc) on trees to strip the meat off them.
Check out the almond cafe for some more birds.
Yeah this is a real thing in Australia, does take a few weeks to make friends with birds, have done in the past.....but will say they can get dependent on you and that's not good
For migraines we have a fix, 100% success rate when done properly. I think the procedure is called a decapi-tation. sincere apologies, bloody Australian humor got the better of me. I hope you continue to feel better. Enjoying your uploads.
Hey Tonia, I know that Americans have their own version of the English language, but I have to say and you have probably been told many times before, but just incase you didn't know that Kookaburra is pronounced Cookaburra!
Fun Fact: The riff played by the flute in Men At Work's hit "Down Under" is based on that Kookaburra song. Although it wasn't all good news for them about it. They were sued many years later in 2009 for copyright.
Kookas and maggies are both meat eaters, so they love eating other birds, lizards, frogs etc. Also, re the migraines, have you tried soaking your feet in very hot water (as hot as you can tolerate).
7 am just bring bread and they will come
You really really need to look up the story about Molly and Peggy. Its a beautiful story about a magpie named Molly and Peggy the dog. It almost had a heart breaking ending but ended up good in the end. Molly even barks like a dog now 😂 th-cam.com/video/2kchBWdJSY8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=edosNr2BBN19LFMW
Short answer no .Birds are like a lot of people & don't like their space being invaded. Butcher Birds & Magpies will kill doves sometimes, Willy Wagtails try to annoy every other bird that comes near them just like Noisy Minors do. Kookaburras will kill & eat other baby birds.
Headaches can be from poor neck support, twisting neck when sleeping. Maybe your head was jammed up against the headboard/wall, maybe it's a crappy pillow. Give the tendon area below the knobby area behind your ears a massage while you roll your head.
Kook == Kook as in cook out
Kookaburra's will steal baby birds out of the nests of other birds, so when there are chicks in nests, Magpies will attack Kookaburras. Magpies are wonderful parents and will protect their babies from all animals and humans. If you walk/ride past a Magpie nest when the chicks are learning to fly, expect to be swooped on by a magpie. A lot of birds hang out in Australian backyards, besides kookaburra's and Magpies. There are Rainbow Lorikeets, King Parrots, Cockatoos, Galahs, Corellas, Plovers etc etc. Some people do cage Cockatoos but I think it is very wrong, because they are meant to be free. It is illegal to cage most of the Aussie birds, thankfully.
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Kookaburras might seem cute but they can actually hunt snakes as part of their diet, only the smaller snakes as you might imagine as their more normal diet are small lizards and large insects. Some claim that they grab the snake and fly high to drop the snake to stun and then repeat many times to kill it. As many snakes can move quite freely among trees and often just launch themselves from high up to get to the ground or the next tree quicky this method of stunning or incapacitating a snakes by just dropping it from a height does not seem that it would, on the face of it, be very effective. Repeated strikes with their hard beak would seem much more effective. Kookaburras are species members of a fairly worldwide distribution of Kingfishers which by their name would seem to imply mostly hunters of fish. However Kookaburras do not hunt fish as a general rule.
Not pets, but friends.
Don't apologise for being human. We all share that dilemma 😅 😊
Magpies are fine with other bird species that aren't threatening. Any birds of prey they will attack relentlessly.
I once fed a Kookaburra on my deck one morning. The next day there were 4 Kookaburras sitting on my deck!! Don't do it. BTW, I don't know if you've seen this fun video of a Kookaburra diving through frame & stealing a sausage: th-cam.com/video/MyXlp_AIZWg/w-d-xo.html
OK did you know The Top 40 Bird songs have you any idea what is the most popular bird song you ever heard and its the most familiar sound to *ALL AUSTRALIANS* no its NOT THE Kookaburra that's placed at number 13 The Number One Bird Song is The Common Koel. Most Koels migrate from Australia to New Guinea and probably eastern Indonesia and even further north, but some remain in northern Australia. During breeding season, they are found in northern and eastern Australia, south to about Nowra, New South Wales, although occasional birds are encountered further south. The Common Koel is a brood parasite, that is, it lays its eggs in the nests of other bird species. Common hosts are the Red Wattlebird,Anthochaera carnunculata, friarbirds, the Magpie-lark, Grallina cyanoleuca, and figbirds. A single egg is laid in the host's nest and once hatched the chick forces the other eggs and hatchlings out of the nest. When the chick leaves the nest it roosts in the outer branches of a tree, cheeping incessantly while the significantly smaller parents desperately search for sufficient food to satisfy the nagging youngster. This is a full-time job, as the young Koel will grow to nearly twice their size. Eventually, it migrates northwards, usually later than the adults, to return as a breeding bird the following spring. Koels appear to be becoming more common in cities, such as Sydney and Brisbane, perhaps because of the abundance of ornamental plants and weeds that produce berries. However, another factor that probably contributes to their increasing abundance is the proliferation of some of their hosts, particularly the Red Wattlebird.
It's really hard for Americans and Europeans to grasp what it's like living in a country that is not only full of wildlife but where the wildlife lives quite literally right up to your doorstep. Culturally we are very protective of our wildlife and have all these systems in place to come to their aid of required. Generally you don't feed them but you give all animals the space to live their normal lives. In effect in most cases we live side by side. Swim with a dolphin, sit quietly with goggles and watch whales swim by 80 meters away in crystal clear water. Or sit at a table eating with kangaroos around you peacefully munching away on the grass. The key is by never being a threat to them they grow up not fearing you. It's a bit different further out in the bush because animals rarely encounter people. That said how animals congregate depends on the species. I have never seen flight birds attack water birds. But flight birds like magpies will attack other birds, we have a lot of magpies around us but seldom see a sea gull or a crow. Tiny Willie wagtails attack other birds in groups of three, they hate crows as well. Most species are regional. The beautiful Major Mitchell is only found around the Mitchell Plateau near Derby in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia. The Sulpher crested cockatoo is/was only found in North Queensland. The Lyer bird Victoria and so the list goes on and some birds like the bloody crows are found everywhere. Did I mention crows are not popular ? After getting a bit of an insight into the incredible bird diversity take some time to learn about the incredible array of nocturnal animals, I love camping in the bush, amazing what hovers just inside the campfire light. Keep learning, with good fortune and some determination you could arrive in our shores a full bottle of knowledge, from there it's just seeing is believing.
Yes
I really really miss the animals and bird life in Aus when I’ve been overseas
Yes coming fr here you really notice how little wildlife many other countries have, sad for them.
i love kooka's but you put a kooka from another family and you will see the most brutal attack you can see.
Kookaburras eat meat, lizards. snakes . insects, caterpillars etc
Don't apologize for not being well. I used to suffer from migraines quite badly until I changed my diet, so I know how you feel. Take care of your health first. The butcher bird doesn't get along with any other kinds of birds. If another bird flies into their territory they will gang up on it and surround it to prevent it from escaping. They will then attack it and kill it. Hence the name. You can't keep any native animal as a pet. You have to be officially licensed to care for them. It's ok if they freely visit you and leave when they want. You should not make them dependent on you for food.
The worst birds are the rosellas if you feeding the birds and they turn up they chase all the other bird away they’re nasty little things or if magpies turn up all the other birds stand back and wait for them to finish
Kookaburras are a serious predator and will eat small birds whole, they are not as cute as they look. They are not threatening to humans but they are savage hunters that have no problem dealing with venomous snakes.
PS its pronounced COOK-AH-BAR-RAA (just say cook)