Australia's BEST Bird Parents - Plovers | Bird Tales
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- This is a video about Australia's best bird parents - Plovers (or masked lapwing). A very quirky and angry bird, but extremely protective of their babies. The ultimate helicopter parents.
Plovers get a really bad reputation for their aggression but in reality it's for protecting their young'uns. If a bird ever needed a PR team, it would probably be the Plover.
This is episode 2 of an ongoing series called Bird Tales, so please sit back and enjoy this 2 minute 58 second video about Plovers.
Cheers!
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I have fond memories of being in primary school and every recess and lunch seeing kids cowering and screaming because of the swooping plovers. I was really scared of them back then. These days I walk through the field and see them swooping down on me, I don't run or scream, or duck and cower. I just walk past their nest without any troubles. Really if you are big enough I don't think they'll actually hit you. I've never been hit myself. Anyways, great video!
haha yes, they’re all noise. Thanks for watching!
would love to see more bird videos like this!
There’s more in the works, they just take ages to shoot! Thanks for watching
Barbed wings! Looks like the guy with the bandaged leg took some damage.
that's what happens when you get too close! 😆
Gorgeous footage!
Thank you!
When plovers catch you going near the nest during their swooping season you know you’re fucked
It’s true. Its the stuff of nightmares
Love the video! We have a nest on our front loan with 4 adorable fluffy chicks and two very controlling parents 😂 We've been reading a lot about masked lapwing now that we're forced to be flatmates! I'll show this video to my kids, they will love it!
Nice! Would be awesome to be able to watch them all grow up. Just don't get too close! 😆
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best or ....bit silly sometimes as to where they take up residence...also i have seen where the can take out 50cent piece size clumps of hair ..twice..both kids lost pgment to that area of hair when it finally grew back...dont mess with them when nesting. ..they even play dead or injured to distract you away from from their eggs..so thats smart i guess
I remember having to run the gauntlet when crossing a park while walking to school every day. Never got got, but their calls still put me on edge haha
Very parental, yes, but when they walk up & down your street from 1:00am - 5:00am every single f*cking night making that screeching sound calling to their mate kilometres away, it literally drives you mad. My wife got out of bed at 5:00am one morning to shoo them off our front lawn, slipped on the sloped, wet driveway in light rain, fell & broke her shoulder. Had to be taken to hospital in an Ambulance with a morphine stick in her mouth while the bird just kept on walking & squawking. I hate these birds with all my being.
yep, they are a nuisance, I got two in my yard with two babies and I can't even go into my own backyard. They didn't pay three hundred and eighty thousand dollars to live there. They never shut up.
@@AussieDJRemixes Sorry for you dude. They probably even affect your property value. If your house was for sale & I came for an inspection & saw plovers in the yard, all you would see is the back of my heels.
@ronlucock3702 ... I have to carry a broom with me when I go in the backyard because they swoop down at me. Apparently they are a protected bird now, probably because of Greenie and do gooders that have never had the experience of having them nesting in their yards. God gave man dominion over the animals, not the other way around.
@@AussieDJRemixes Absolutely mate. I rang council, National Parks & Wildlife, they told me to call the Dept of Urban Planning & Development. They were actually sympathetic & ironically said urban planning & development ( street lights, cut lawns), was partly to blame. They couldn't help me though. Because my wife's injury occurred on the nature strip, I even threatened to sue council. They didn't care. I told them my wife had more rights than a frickin bird!!
MASKED LAPWING, not plover.
Get the facts correct before you post false information.
I literally call it the MASKED LAPWING 18 seconds into the video. The average person calls it a plover. geez
Thanks for watching and leaving a comment.
@@Blinsaff Average person calls it a plover? Not in Victoria. They are Masked Lapwings there and there are more Masked Lapwings in Victoria than any other part of Australia, the same as Magpies and Mudlarks so our titles are correct!
@@trep17mag Does it really matter?
@@bmmilk6852 .......Well if your not a genuine bird lover I guess not.
But very disappointing that we are in Australia, one nation but no-one ison the same page.
I have a book titled "Native birds of Australia", in it it states the primary name is "Masked Lapwing".
'Spur winged plover' is also mentioned however in another Australian book on native birds it says "Masked lapwings' are not real plovers so I'm guided by that.
Personally I refer to them as "Stick legs" due to their long skinny legs.
Anyway, they are awesome feathered friends.
Enjoy your weekend!
@@trep17mag Okay
Another great video! Those plover chicks are adorable! ☺
Awesome, beautiful,funny, special.......they have loads of personality and you can easily make friends with them by offering water and worms.
Thanks for watching 🙂 spoiling them like that and they’ll never leave! haha
My local plover laid an egg in the middle of the yard so I moved it as my husband was mowing. I’m worried the plovers won’t know where the egg is. I held it up and made noise but I don’t think they took any notice 😢
oh no 😞I'm sure they'd track it down and set up camp there.. they do lose a lot of eggs and babies. The ones I filmed for this video lost all of these chicks, unfortunately. I did see them a few weeks later sitting on a batch of fresh eggs though! Very difficult life being a ground dwelling bird
The babies are good at hideing
They really are