Australia's Most Common Birds - Part 2

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  • @sirmuckingham2494
    @sirmuckingham2494 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +663

    Every Australian's blood pressure went up when the call of the Plover played.

    • @tazgecko
      @tazgecko 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      A cold shiver went up my spine ...

    • @flowerfairy1950
      @flowerfairy1950 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      They are only protecting their young. I find despite the challenges they face, they survive.

    • @RackieD
      @RackieD 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      so if you live near them, they can recognize you xD ive seen people getting swooped, but ive never been. Just pays to say hello to your local birds

    • @flowerfairy1950
      @flowerfairy1950 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      @@RackieD Magpies are the same, be kind and they know who their friends are 😊

    • @katem3961
      @katem3961 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      We affectionately called them pluggers as kids, and we quickly perfected our belly dives 😂

  • @JohnGardnerAlhadis
    @JohnGardnerAlhadis 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +94

    This man is a national treasure. Protect him at all costs.

  • @zeroic3485
    @zeroic3485 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +241

    Oi! The second my cat heard the Plover sound, she jumped off my couched and dived to the TV while the dark souls music was playing!

    • @VishkarSentry
      @VishkarSentry 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@zeroic3485 A fair reaction.

    • @Swandivein
      @Swandivein 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Don’t own a cat lol get a dog mate

  • @mmmarcd
    @mmmarcd 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +116

    Australia gets the best wakeup soundtrack from our birds than any other country. It's the first thing you notice when comming back home

    • @ShieldToad-mk2rp
      @ShieldToad-mk2rp 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Do you mean because they will wake you up?
      I feel like you're quite unlucky, with having parrots be so common they are gorgeous but their calls are shriekish. While in North America and Europe we get to hear a wide range of songbirds (alongside the cooing pigeons). To me it's also really weird seeing so few songbirds on the list cause to me they feel so standard and universal.

    • @Sthuont
      @Sthuont 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@ShieldToad-mk2rp Australia has plenty of songbirds, including one of the largest songbirds in the world, the superb lyrebird (which is also the most accomplished mimic). Songbirds also appear to have had their evolutionary origin in Australia and they then radiated out to the rest of the world.

    • @hollylucianta6711
      @hollylucianta6711 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@ShieldToad-mk2rp Honestly, you get used to it and learn to love the shrieks. It was such a nice feeling to come home from deployment and hear the black cockatoos calling to each other. And galahs and corellas yelling at each other makes me smile, they're such clowns.

    • @maxhugen
      @maxhugen หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ShieldToad-mk2rp The Australian magpie is considered one of the most impressive songbirds globally. The "Maggie" is capable of mimicking various sounds, and their "songs" can be surprisingly complex. 👍🇦🇺

    • @maxhugen
      @maxhugen หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@hollylucianta6711 Love all the bird calls... although a group of a 100 odd kookaburra all laughing as loud as they can pre-dawn, or trees chocka full of galahs drowning out a movie at 9m, is something else again! 🤣

  • @qbmac2306
    @qbmac2306 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +178

    Outrageous! You didn't even mention (insert bird name here)!

    • @R0WDY
      @R0WDY 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Whip bird

  • @AnUncleanHippy
    @AnUncleanHippy 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +135

    I remember helping a tawny frogmouth get out of our yard one time. My dogs were going off their heads at something, so I went out to have a look, and there was this tawny frogmouth near the shed on the ground. I think it'd gotten lost, and didn't know how to get out, so I picked 'em up, pointed them at the sky, and off they flew. Good bird.

    • @kristiemclennan
      @kristiemclennan 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Have you been wondering how it got there and stayed there ever since? What’s your hypothesis?

    • @AnUncleanHippy
      @AnUncleanHippy 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@kristiemclennan We have an undercover pagola with a fernery that's under shadecloth. I think it must've just flown in one night and didn't know how to get out.

    • @kristiemclennan
      @kristiemclennan 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@AnUncleanHippy sound like it was playing dumb in defence of the dogs?

    • @ChrisGuiver
      @ChrisGuiver 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@AnUncleanHippy It may have been chasing a mouse or other food in there...

    • @Elitist20
      @Elitist20 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That frogmouth call - I heard it recently, and at first thought it was a distant car alarm.

  • @VishkarSentry
    @VishkarSentry 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +81

    The only plover video to truly get the facts straight, thank you very much mr backyard naturalist.

    • @tarantuIas
      @tarantuIas 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Plovers are so based 🫡

  • @cadoized
    @cadoized 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +153

    babe wakeup new backyard naturalist

    • @inMode85
      @inMode85 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Fuck yes! My thoughts exactly

  • @Bambi_Sapphic
    @Bambi_Sapphic 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +191

    I currently have a bush Turkey building a mound in my front garden and it's honestly the coolest shit ever, best bit is the landlord isn't allowed to destroy it because they're protected 🤣

    • @Flesh_Wizard
      @Flesh_Wizard 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      I love bush turkeys. Like when they start sprinting and somehow turn at a 90° angle without losing any speed😂

    • @twisteraustralus
      @twisteraustralus 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Next do “Australia’s LEAST common birds”

    • @andrewhazlewood4569
      @andrewhazlewood4569 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@twisteraustralus Albert’s Lyrebird is a cert for that list. I am privileged to have seen and heard one.

    • @MrSpitfireMustang
      @MrSpitfireMustang 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Why would the landlord want to destroy it?

    • @australiaprisonisland9156
      @australiaprisonisland9156 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So you're a renter?

  • @jcaites
    @jcaites 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    I'm iving in Europe, 1000s of miles away from Australia and I look forward to every one of your videos. Seeing this makes me really miss home, and appreciate the birdbrained beauty of my great southern land. Your work is a fusion of great editing, clever jokes and wordplay, and insight into Australia's amazing nature.

  • @h.c5750
    @h.c5750 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +56

    Best Aussie animal channel is back at it!

  • @grandmothergoose
    @grandmothergoose 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +118

    I keep forgetting how terrifying pelicans are. Thanks for the reminder.

    • @patrickwastie5
      @patrickwastie5 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Had a pelican shit on my car once
      It was probably what Pearl harbour felt like because it was a massive air raid bomb

    • @LabiaLicker
      @LabiaLicker 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Disappointed that none of the videos of pelicans trying to eat things they shouldn't (like toddlers) wasn't included

    • @BulletYTube
      @BulletYTube 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@patrickwastie5I think we all have a pelican story 😂

    • @richardparrott7192
      @richardparrott7192 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Even more terrifying was a dive buddy's car windscreen who made the mistake of parking under a light pole when we went for a dive. The pelican poo when we came back was like laminated plastic paint that covered the entire windscreen and stripped paint from the bonnet!

    • @auzzierocks
      @auzzierocks 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      They also eat pigeons live

  • @mrbanjofrog
    @mrbanjofrog 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +72

    Perfect video for some calamari and chips at sundown!

    • @Flesh_Wizard
      @Flesh_Wizard 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Mind the seagulls mate😂

  • @ectoplasmicz
    @ectoplasmicz 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    Your ending perfectly encapsulated how my love for birds grew in recent years. Learning and being able to identify it opened up this rich world that was always around me, and now going for walks or driving to the bush for days out is an exciting prospect for all the birds and plants ill get to see :)
    Also had the opportunity adopt a rescued rainbow velociraptor (lorikeet) who's brought so much joy!

    • @trinefanmel
      @trinefanmel 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Well said!
      I had a similar experience when I chose to survey birds in my local area for a uni assessment. I now see them everywhere and I love watching them going about their business in the backyard.
      Then it comes full circle when they stop to look at us for a while to figure out what WE are and what WE'RE doing.

    • @heidithesausage
      @heidithesausage 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Same. We really are so lucky here.

  • @katem3961
    @katem3961 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    When living in Exmouth Western Australia, we had a small metal bird bath underneath a large flame tree. Dad emu (aka bush chook) would arrive each afternoon for weeks with all his kids in tow to have a drink and nap together underneath the tree for an hour or so 🥰

  • @jospargo8417
    @jospargo8417 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Part 3 please - I love this series. Maybe one about introduced species too? Get people strait on the difference between a Noisy Miner Bird and an Indian Myna Bird!

    • @the-Backyard-Naturalist
      @the-Backyard-Naturalist  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I would like to do introduced birds at some point, I keep seeing the buggers everywhere!

  • @scpmpf
    @scpmpf 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Mate, love your videos. Not only the great content but especially the laconic narration. Keep them coming.

  • @OlessanYT
    @OlessanYT 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    Wedge-tailed eagle my beloved

    • @heidithesausage
      @heidithesausage 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Amazing 🥰

    • @Orangesjesus
      @Orangesjesus 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@OlessanYT haven't seen a wedgie for some time, brahminy kites, sea-eagles & osprey, on qld border..(I saw a black cockatoo, last week). Currumbin wildlife sanctuary, was a private bequest, to the holiday-makers of Australia (and the world)...Councils have tried to steal it (the real-estate, you see)...look it up.

  • @VishkarSentry
    @VishkarSentry 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    Thank You ❤

  • @TheMergeBuff45
    @TheMergeBuff45 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Also shocked the Eastern Whipbird didn’t even get a mention. I grew up in the bush and you would hear them all the time.

    • @camfunme
      @camfunme หลายเดือนก่อน

      My favourite bird.

  • @shrikelet
    @shrikelet 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    The Morrowind reference is appropriate because the Masked Lapwing is basically an IRL Cliff-racer.

    • @VishkarSentry
      @VishkarSentry 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@shrikelet They do indeed fly incredibly erratically ♥️

  • @fivestringslinger
    @fivestringslinger 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    There's a handful of creators who absolutely make my day whenever I see a new video of theirs pop up. You're one of 'em. Cheers!

  • @ryanpage5690
    @ryanpage5690 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Man I absolutely love your videos. They are informative with a bit of character and sway you'd only get from a fellow Aussie. I hope more people get to see this channel

  • @DoraTheNinja
    @DoraTheNinja 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    bro i have never watched a video about birds in my entire life or even thought anything more about them other than thats a cool looking bird but this was class and really gave me an appreciation for aussies weird unique birds

  • @sentimentalbloke185
    @sentimentalbloke185 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Good to see old mate Lapwing Enjoyer will be able to go to town, enjoying Lapwings.

  • @AzureRei
    @AzureRei 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I could watch these videos forever, absolutely love them. I'm so fond of all these birds, especially the king parrot.

  • @davidhynd4435
    @davidhynd4435 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Love your videos. And, yes please, a part three.
    I have American friends and a brother-in-law who's also a septic tank. The thing that I've heard them comment on most is just how colourful our birds are. Birds in the US of A are less so, apparently. Just another reason to be grateful to be Aussie.

  • @ghoulashtea
    @ghoulashtea 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    Ahhh yes, the pheasant coucal. My family always refers to them as 'the naruto birds' for their habit of waiting by the side of the road at dusk and deciding to naruto run across juuust after you think they aren't going to. They must be some kind of wizard though, as we've never hit one (yet) - must be calculating the opportune moment to cross for maximum exhilaration

  • @abxy2257
    @abxy2257 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Love this channel

    • @abxy2257
      @abxy2257 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Cheers for the video Darcy

  • @CarsCaninesCats
    @CarsCaninesCats 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    Unexpected Aunty Donna is always welcome.

  • @gobcity
    @gobcity หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    9:50 Ratites did not actually lose they ability of flight, they just have a bizarre predisposition to end up becoming large flightless birds covergently of one another. It's likely to some kind of genetic predisposition which makes them more likely to mutate a certain way but it's pretty interesting.

  • @ThatKidYouKnow27
    @ThatKidYouKnow27 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I just want you to know your videos are the highlight of my week.

  • @jonbrown314
    @jonbrown314 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I love the Apostle Birds. Working FIFO, they are one of the few joys I get to see around camp. They're call always making me smile.

  • @Squirrelmind66
    @Squirrelmind66 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Never change, Backyard Naturalist.

  • @john_barnett
    @john_barnett 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Did not expect to see Sonichu in a backyard naturalist video

    • @Lykori
      @Lykori 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      God I hope he doesn't catch the curse 😢

  • @crookfordacelington8067
    @crookfordacelington8067 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Awesome video legend keep them coming! The Auntie Donna clip killed me

  • @relwaretep
    @relwaretep 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    BLUNNIES!

  • @UpsideDownYuGiOh
    @UpsideDownYuGiOh 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    1:27 It has been some many long years, but you can never slip such a mythical soundtrack by unnoticed.

  • @grantb8168
    @grantb8168 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    What's hard is dealing with the fact that apparently I'm an 85 year old grandma and there's something I need to learn about hedgehogs. Well F Me Dead. Anyway, on with the show. Here I was going to politely suggest that because you had a rant about those Collingwood birds, it would only be fair that a gentle prose about the White Swans of Sydney would be substantively edifying, at least for me. Then you go and show that clip of a red-eyed, black demon, raping a golden retriever and all I can think about is the caning on Saturday night. Where was that glorious viciousness when "WE" needed it. Seriously, timing is not your strong point, Darcy. Damn I F'ing love this channel. Few can stimulate intrigue whilst satisfying fading, classical musical tastes and also, stirring the pot of the comedically challenged. Well done Tube friend and please keep up the great work. At this point I need all the laughs and smiles I can get. BTW; I've never seen a Wedgie in real life so an extended doco on our Aussie superstars would be appreciated if at all possible. 😊

    • @the-Backyard-Naturalist
      @the-Backyard-Naturalist  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you Grant! It's always a pleasure to see you in the comments. Honestly we need to give Sydney FC phone call about their mascot not being lore accurate. But that's black and white thinking for ya! I would like to do a wedgetail episode down the track, but it took many days of patience to film the one in this video. They're illusive buggers as well as majestic ones!

  • @lolcatz88
    @lolcatz88 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Please please please,do the bush curlew in part 3!

    • @emmalynn1142
      @emmalynn1142 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Those lil guys are absolutely hilarious, I love them so much

  • @Matin_M
    @Matin_M หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Absolutely loving the videos mate, keep em coming!

  • @maxhugen
    @maxhugen หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks for another great video... the humour is excellent and really tops it off! 😎🇦🇺

  • @GiselleGabriels-i8l
    @GiselleGabriels-i8l 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Don't know what's better, the bird facts or the banging soundtrack

  • @seanshaw8321
    @seanshaw8321 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great video, you’re a man after my own heart with your humour and love our critters

  • @DestrierWillowWisp
    @DestrierWillowWisp 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Love seeing the boobook get an honourable mention in the tawny frogmouth segment. There's one that frequents my suburb and it's nice to hear their signature call on a more quiet night.

  • @MozillaVulpix
    @MozillaVulpix 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love these videos so much

  • @GregStewartecosmology
    @GregStewartecosmology 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    please please please make a video about The epic Channel Billed Cuckoo and the epic mind games that get played with the Magpies.... because your narration is the best!!! cheers

  • @neilcam
    @neilcam 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Lovely stuff, Darcy. And I did like the carrying the nerdism even further to the point of using Dvorak's Humoresque as the closing music. As both a bird nerd and a classical viola player, I say "Bravo, sir!"

  • @PIutonium94
    @PIutonium94 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    for part 3, might i suggest completing the collection of birds you might see attacking small children in victoria with the cape barren goose? they're gorgeous but absolutely vicious during nesting season, as i'm sure anyone who's visited phillip island trying to see the penguins would know.

    • @g_e_o_m9369
      @g_e_o_m9369 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I once had one of these idiots stand up to my car on Phillip Island, it was only when I drove right up to it slowly that it finally acquiesced to my intentions of driving to the GP circuit and cleared the road. Utterly stupid creatures.

    • @g_e_o_m9369
      @g_e_o_m9369 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I once had one of these idiots stand up to my car on Phillip Island, it was only when I drove right up to it slowly that it finally acquiesced to my intentions of driving to the GP circuit and cleared the road. Utterly stupid creatures.

  • @CaratsRitzy
    @CaratsRitzy 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    15:25 100% can confirm, you know ya scuffed it/pulled an all-nighter when you near theses Cockies start to make house call towards their favourite breakkie tree in the morning.
    Black Cockies are shy by nature, a direct contrast to their very socialable Sulphur-Crested Cockies in the eastern states.

  • @grantodaniel7053
    @grantodaniel7053 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Fantastic vid mate, always get excited when one of yours pops up! Thanks, and keep up the great work. 👍👍

  • @ForTheBirbs
    @ForTheBirbs 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I somehow missed this episode. How awesome, and thanks for the shoutout of my turkey mound footage. Cheers

  • @jamesbarton4859
    @jamesbarton4859 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks

  • @NefariousPear
    @NefariousPear 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Hitting some A tier references with Groening, Halo and sonichu

    • @JohnGardnerAlhadis
      @JohnGardnerAlhadis 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      "I just think they're neat" was also a well-timed _Simpsons_ reference (when Marge extolled the virtue of potatoes). I appreciate that the millennial humour is still subtle enough that my Gen-Jones parents can enjoy these videos without being perturbed.

    • @UpsideDownYuGiOh
      @UpsideDownYuGiOh 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Listen to the background track at 1:27, though he could slip that by everyone but I see you

  • @southron_d1349
    @southron_d1349 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I've been swooped by Masked Lapwings before. It's a little unnerving but no more than that. Never been swooped by Magpies, though. Nor seen it happen to anyone, either. There's a pair of Lapwings on the other side of my back fence and they sound off a lot. I like hearing them.
    We had a hakea some years ago but it was destroyed by a couple of Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos. Worth it!

    • @sandrosliske
      @sandrosliske 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I've only been swooped once by lapwings, and that was when I was a dumb kid at school trying to get swooped because we had nothing better to do.

    • @VishkarSentry
      @VishkarSentry 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@sandrosliske How entertaining that sounds.

    • @sandrosliske
      @sandrosliske 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@VishkarSentry it was enjoyable

    • @Vespasian705
      @Vespasian705 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@sandrosliske I did this way to much as a kid, as well as throwing sticks at bee hives and seeing who could run the fastest.

    • @sandrosliske
      @sandrosliske 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @Vespasian705 open hand slapping bees until we got stung. I swear, the further you go back, the more dumber the reasons people got injured.

  • @TheRealLeewon
    @TheRealLeewon 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Some of my favourite birds! I’ve gotten into birdwatching recently and get excited whenever I can add them to my birdwatching app collection

  • @Poohze01
    @Poohze01 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great collection! Looking forward to Part III!!!

  • @davidnelson7786
    @davidnelson7786 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Absolutely love our Wedge Tailed Eagle. Was lucky enough to escort bird and it’s keeper in a lift at the MCG to access the grandstand roof for its role as Seagull scarer. Massive, majestic bird up close.

  • @8MrBreadSticks8
    @8MrBreadSticks8 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Wonderful video, thank you for making such great content

  • @fluroflash2803
    @fluroflash2803 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I love your content. Please continue

  • @BaronVonShnozza
    @BaronVonShnozza 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The masked lapwing is my spirit animal. Never sleeps, always ready for action, never backs down.

  • @cillamoke
    @cillamoke หลายเดือนก่อน

    The wedge tailed eagle!! A marvellous creature!!❤

  • @sarahrichardson3692
    @sarahrichardson3692 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Another awesome video, Ty :-)
    Birds are my jam, I love them all :-) yes even the plover!

  • @Underestimated37
    @Underestimated37 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Really cool thing about the seagulls, they used to nest 4hrs inland up in the Mallee on the shores of saltwater Lake Tyrrell, and as a result a completely landlocked town aptly named Sea Lake has seagulls as the town symbol!

  • @durantan2343
    @durantan2343 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Gouldian Finch is probably my fave Aussie bird! The colours and so small and cute.

  • @hypermoth
    @hypermoth 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I'll be watching this later but I just want to say this video has the best thumbnail I've ever seen

  • @PinataOblongata
    @PinataOblongata 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    Can't believe you didn't mention Wood Ducks kidnapping hoards of ducklings from other Wood Duck parents they don't think are doing a good enough job 😅

  • @trinefanmel
    @trinefanmel 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    11:00 Ah, the dulcet tones of Mike Dalton, NBN News...
    Some of my favourite birds are here and I love your work!

  • @spotte1992
    @spotte1992 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I hope there will be a third one in this series! I do love it. Thanks for the glorious footage.
    (still no Curlew though!)

  • @mariblue72
    @mariblue72 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    We used to have budgies, cockatiels, quails, and mallee ringnecks when I was a kid, never had an issue with them. A little nibble and the occassional flutter as they'd fly overhead, no big deal.
    Then I moved to somewhere slightly less rural as a teenager a little over 20 years ago, never heard of plovers before and my introduction to them was getting dive bombed walking across a patch of grass that was bird free a week or two before. This came after having to switch up my usual walking route because I'd started getting swooped by magpies for the first time that same summer. 😅
    Getting attacked gave me a real phobia of birds which I thought was for good, so please know that your videos are starting to turn me back around to appreciating birds again. I might not ever get to the point where I could own one again, but I've really started to enjoy watching them in the garden (including the very big magpies in the area - haven't seen any more plovers though!).

  • @MoistJas
    @MoistJas 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Great birds great vid

  • @AussieAquatic
    @AussieAquatic 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thoroughly enjoyable as always :)

  • @taylorkershaw2509
    @taylorkershaw2509 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Aussie Birds - Greatest Hits more like. Still waiting for the lovely Liquorice All-sorts Duck (Shelduck, love their honks)
    Keep up the excellent videos man!

  • @loggerT123
    @loggerT123 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Please talk about more aussie plants! I want to learn about more edible wild plants and i really like your style

  • @smmcb647
    @smmcb647 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome video! So appreciate you including the bird calls so I can recognise those bird sounds when in the bush.

  • @Monty_NSW
    @Monty_NSW 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    too funny...a nice spin on an interesting but oft dryly presented topic, thanks Darcy, I'm in!

  • @nrgpower5689
    @nrgpower5689 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    your videos are always wonderful keep up the great work

  • @Braydan789
    @Braydan789 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Yessss the plover made it to one of your videos

    • @VishkarSentry
      @VishkarSentry 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Braydan789 Finally

  • @juliagardner9750
    @juliagardner9750 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wonderful commentary and so
    informative on our feathered friends.Tha k goodness they all protected now!

  • @jianblundell6038
    @jianblundell6038 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Backyard naturalist and Casual geographic are doing a service to the zoological community, keep it up guys!

  • @Bozzl3
    @Bozzl3 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yellow Tailed Black Cockies are one of my faves. Their calls are so delightful and they get surpringly large. They can be found in parklands in cities. I used to see them all the time around Wattle Park in Melbourne.

  • @aqilatkin9514
    @aqilatkin9514 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Honey wake up, The Backyard Naturalist posted

  • @ChrisGuiver
    @ChrisGuiver 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wonderful video, terrific topic, and great humor. Thanks

  • @dmays67
    @dmays67 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Was so chuffed to see your vid pop up mate. And you mentioned my personal nemesis!, the Corella. I work around Gympie QLD and the little screeching horde is never far away.

  • @heidithesausage
    @heidithesausage 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I think we all know that birds aren't real. This was very clever & convincing though. I said wow at least 8 or 9 times & OMG like 5 times. Loved this ☺🙏
    Eastern Spinebill's are probably on your to do list already.

  • @hannahlouise1763
    @hannahlouise1763 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I had a flock of king parrots at my grandfathers house that have been visiting for over a decade. Such a soft spot for these birds

  • @Grievous-
    @Grievous- 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Some of your jokes are completly....bird brained... 😆
    Amazing video!

  • @romeoC9968
    @romeoC9968 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love you Channel, great content. They remind me of how great our country is

  • @jzawh
    @jzawh 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    appreciate your content, has actually got me into bird spotting and ticking them off my book I bought.

  • @emilygilbert3632
    @emilygilbert3632 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for your service backyard naturalist 🙏🙏🙏

  • @RedPanda74
    @RedPanda74 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I live in a northern suburb of Perth. We have had a mated pair of Frogmouths in our backyard for years. I love seeing them sitting on our gate and fence of an evening!

  • @rob3942
    @rob3942 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very informative and entertaining Darcy. Gonya mate yes more please Go well

  • @peterg219
    @peterg219 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wonderful stuff Darcey. So informative. Beautiful presentation. Excellent commentary. Thanks mate. Q. What happened to our little finches? which I used to see their thousands (or so I thought when a kid, c. 1960's) living in Mudgee NSW.

  • @chickennugget6684
    @chickennugget6684 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    I implore all to look at baby Emus, they are adorable.
    ..just don't do it in person if you like being alive.

  • @JungleIsMassiv
    @JungleIsMassiv 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That black cockatoo call whenever they're in centennial park gives me goosebumps. Easily my favourite. Sounds like I'm in jurassic park!

  • @the_newt_nest
    @the_newt_nest 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I read The Bird Way and now that and you have made me want to go to Australia. I want to see your fairy wrens.

  • @Swandivein
    @Swandivein 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Mate!!! lol keep it up. Always loved birds . Use to have a massive bird Avery in north coast NSW. I just learned heaps and had a good laugh 👍🏼

  • @lordanderson8090
    @lordanderson8090 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Exquisite music choice sir ⚡️ 🔱

  • @austinhowell1339
    @austinhowell1339 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Love these videos so much, don't forget the Zebra Finch in the next one mate

    • @The1nsane1
      @The1nsane1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      and the Double Bar!

  • @sallycoulter6535
    @sallycoulter6535 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    "apex predator to asphalt spreadator"
    I salute you. That's brilliant writing!