American Couple Reacts: Australia's Birds! 20 ICONIC Aussie Birds! FIRST TIME SEEING THEM!!
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- American Couple Reacts: Australia's Birds! 20 ICONIC Aussie Birds! FIRST TIME SEEING THEM!! We LOVE animals but one of us has a giant love for all things Avian! We love American Birds and British Birds but this is our VERY FIRST TIME EVER looking at Australian Birds! 20 Iconic Aussie bird photos with information in this episode! They are all incredibly interesting and much different than others we have seen. Certainly more colors! So grab a cuppa and start off your day with some beauty. Did your favorite make this list? Would you add different species? Let us know. And what is with that Masked creature? If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support! *More Links below...
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We LOVE animals but one of us has a giant love for all things Avian! We love American Birds and British Birds but this is our VERY FIRST TIME EVER looking at Australian Birds! 20 Iconic Aussie bird photos with information in this episode! They are all incredibly interesting and much different than others we have seen. Certainly more colors! So grab a cuppa and start off your day with some beauty. Did your favorite make this list? Would you add different species? Let us know. And what is with that Masked creature? If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!
I was hoping to see a lyre bird and a cassowary. In my other youtube channel I post bird videos about twice a month. I'm currently working on a video just about Australian White Pelicans. The main reason I started photography was to get reference photos for my art work. I'm currently working on a watercolour of a Superb Fairy Wren. In the most recent video I posted there is a short sequence of a male and female Superb Fairy Wren hopping around together. There is also a sequence of black swans swimming in the lake. I get lots of different birds. Too many to list here. But there are often sulphorcrestedcockatoos and little corellas in them too. And sometimes you can hear them. I enjoyed this video. I'm glad you enjoyed it too.
I love our birds! When I visited the states I thought your birds were bland (sorry)
Australia does have so many interesting and beautiful birds unique to it, and birdsong goes on all day.
British magpies are different, and aggressive and much disliked because theynkill other birds. Australian magpies are loved.
Bird watcher, Bird Spotter, Birder, Twitcher are all pretty much the same. Twitchers are more intent on trying to find new species.
One bird that should have definitely been on that list is the Lyrebird. Incredible tail feathers and can mimic just about any sound. From other birds, chain saws, camera shutters, horns, dog barking you name it. They are local to my area and they are worth checking out. There are about 850 bird species in Australia and almost half are found nowhere else. Cheers Big Ears.
Absolutely. (Hey, did you know that that "laser gun" sound is their natural call?)
This is a good audio video of one that identifies each bird call.
th-cam.com/video/XUvVskyQTtE/w-d-xo.html
Omg yes 🙌 they are unbelievable 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I also live near lyrebirds! They are so beautiful.
Definitely
There was recently a thing at Sydney Taronga Zoo of a Lyrebird announcing the evacuation including the siren sounds.
From a fellow bird nerd, I can't believe there were no grass finches in this list? The Zebra finch is iconic, as is the Gouldian finch, but there are so many gorgeous Aussie finches. They're the size of sparrows and just lovely. Their sounds are lovely too. Please please look up Australian finches!!
I'm guessing he's not in the areas they are found. Zebras are way out in the outback, Gouldians in the NT and WA.
I love hearing the distinct Finch sound above the din of all my local birds. They all have preferred time slots, different times of day when one might be the majority of the bird sounds in the area. Theres lovely overlapping periods with all the cute little grassy species are hopping around and darting back to the safety of shrubs, where Finches can be heard 'across the playground'. And then later it might be Currawong hour, and theres Friarbirds hanging out in the back ground. I love the sound of all the bird life that we just take for granted all too often.
Early this year I saw a Bin Chicken and a Bush Turkey having a fight on a path alone the Brisbane River. What made it hilarious was a Bush Curlew (who scream at night) looking on closely and stoically like a boxing umpire.
OMG, the Curlew! Absolutely freaked me out when I first heard it as a kid, when we moved to FNQ. 😂 sounds like screaming ghosts at night! ( that's what I thought as a kid, anyway.)
@@sunisbest1234 Such an eerie sound, the stone curlew. They call it the "death bird".
@@NewFalconerRecords Yes!!!! The eeriest sound I've ever heard!
@@sunisbest1234 Nothing has a more terrifying scream. I remember drinking cheap wine on a beach on North Stradbroke with mates during school holidays when I was 16is then trying to find the parents rental holiday house that I'd need to sneak into when all of a sudden one stood right next to me and SCREAMED it's head off. I ran and slept on the beach! I know now they're harmless but still, wasn't a fun experience.
And no the Bin Chook and Bush Turkey did not hurt each other. They just jumped about weirdly and the Curlew got right among them with a lot of authority.
Emus can grow up to 6.5 feet and weigh 121 lbs. They're cheeky buggers! They'll pinch a bag of potato chips out of your hand when you're not looking. They're really fast runners. My favourite Aussie bird is the magpie. They have the most beautiful song and are extremely intelligent. I used to leave food out in my driveway for them. One day I was late coming home and one of the magpies actually came and knocked on my front door lol 😅
Emus use the metric system for measuring
Haha, not an Aussie bird but my uni had peacocks and I was sitting a little way away watching them one day while eating a bag of potato chips. One of the males slowly came closer and closer to me until he was right next to me, tail out, STARING at the chips. He even started honking at me when I refused to give him any. Who knew big birds love potato chips so much!😂
Emus are also found on the coastal plains of Northern NSw, Along the the grass flats behind the beaches, if there re any left.
@@tomcartmill401 yeah we get them fairly close to the coast in WA
We have one that follows the competitors in the local Parkrun!! (Sunshine Coast, Qld)
The two birds I would have had in this list are the Superb Lyrebird for its ability to mimic any sound. There's a very good David Attenborough vid that shows this. The second is the Cassowary, our most dangerous bird.
A magpie family will nest in the same tree every September (swooping season)and if you don't make friends with them they will remember and pass down info to the little ones.
Indeed, you make yourself known as belonging the the area, your pretty safe, not always, but mostly. Love them, A great early morning call.
You'll have to check out the lyrebird, watch a video so you can hear it rather than just a photo. It can imitate anything it hears from chainsaws to drills. A lost child was once rescued in the bush because one of the seachers heard what he thought was a child crying and it was actually a lyrebird so he realised the child would be in the area because the bird was imitating the child. True story.
I'd go camping at a place called Murrundindi near Melbourne where I live, and you'd hear car horns and car alarms being armed or set off, when we were the only people in the forest. We'd hear whipbirds in a place that had had no whippies there in 20 years. Lyrebirds. Those things are like the Fairlight Instrument. Australian, and perfect mimics.
Duade produces fantastic bird photography videos. He really gets into the weeds with the technical skills and camera and lens reviews as well as sessions out in the bush. He has a real love for bird photography and fir anyone , anywhere in the world interested in bird photography his channel has to be one of the best.
List needs to be way longer!
Eclectus parrot, rainbow bee eater, scarlet honeyeater, lyrebird, cassowary, kingfisher, rosellas, fruit dove, regent bowerbird, have to hear the green catbird call too... I love our aussie bird variety
The lyrebird is soo iconic.
I wish he had the bird call of half of these birds. Some are so vocal
It was great hearing the kookaburra in the background though!
@@taliesinllanfair4338 such a wonderful sound. I have spent the last 3 weeks in various alpine locations in Victoria and have had the kookaburras and Currawong singing to me. I also dodged a lyrebird on the Mt Stirling circuit road. He was zippy! Lol
Id love to see on the list or if you wanna look them up
-lyrebird
-rosella (there’s is about 4-5 variations of rosella, ect. Eastern, southern)
-king parrot
-yellow tailed black cockatoo
-cassowary
-rose ringed parrot
-red winged parrot
-mulga parrot
-Azure Kingfisher
-rainbow bee eater
-gouildian finch
Are some of my favourites!
The masked lapwing is called a plover in Australia. And when it’s nesting season you don’t dare go outside without a stick.
This was an epic video. I am also a huge bird nerd 😊. I have to say my favourite bird was the splendid fairy wren. The robins had incredible colours. The rainbow lorikeets are beautiful too. So many birds to love in Aussie ! Thanks so much ❤
I live in suburban Sydney & we get quite a few beautiful birds; Lorikeets eat my grapes on my front verandah every season, a residential Tawny Frogmouth, Galahs, Sulphur Crested Cockatoos, Cockatiels, Kookaburras, Masked Lapwings, Bin Chickens, Willy Wagtails, Peewees, Magpies, Superb Fairywrens & many more. My favourite bird songs are the Magpie & Kookaburra. It’s hard not to smile when you hear our laughing bird 😁
I have had the privilege of having a Spangled Drongo spend quite a bit of time at my place over a 6 week period. This bird has crests above each eye that run towards its back. Its colour appears black until it gets in the sun and then can reflect blue and green. I like this bird because of its cheeky character and that it always seems happy as it spends most of its time singing. These birds will mimic other bird calls and then mix all these different calls into a beautiful song.
King Parrots, Blue faced Honey Eaters, Scarlet Honey Eaters, Rainbow Bee Eaters, Red Rumped Parrots, Blue Wrens, Red Wrens, Different Finches etc are all notable birds we get regularly in South Queensland that are not on this list.
Lol what great intro for Debbie 😁 funny you two🌹
I live in a bayside beach suburb about 20 kilometres south west of Melbourne CBD, it is on a huge wetland that streches about 25 kilometres to the south along the bay.
We have a huge flock of sulphur crested cockatoos who make the worst racket at sundown, that my 18 month old grandson absolutely loves. We also have a large variety of wrens, magpies (the most beautiful call of all the Australian birds), but watch them, they will swoop you in springtime if you are near their young. In the shallows at the bay beach we have many black swans and pelicans.
We have migratory birds to the wetlands, some come from as far as Russia. It is a real treat to live in this part of Melbourne.
😂 yes true, we are so lucky in Australia to have so many pretty and interesting birds. Maggies are really so fun to watch, they play, roll around and everything.
❤️ Magpie
🧡 Bin Chicken
💛 Tawny Frogmouth
💛 Willie Wagtail
💙 Fairywren
💜 Kookaburra
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Those are your favorites in order? Good list!!
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow no particular order 🤣🙃 just favourites in general from the list 😜
You asked for the English name for what you call bird nerds. The closest one that I can come up with is the twitchers referring to the habit that they develop of turning their heads or eyes to catch sight of just about any bird, but when word gets around of someone spotting a particularly rare bird for this country the twitchers will turn up en mass just to catch a mere glimpse of a foreign bird, usually this occurs during the hurricane season in the USA and the Caribbean when a bird or two get a strong tailwind and inadvertently arrive on British shores. On rare occasions the twitchers have the luck of seeing a bird that tries to settle down and then the bird spotting clubs will organise a tour bus to travel from all parts of the country just to record another entry in their log’s.
What a wonderful bird is the pelican,
Its beak can hold more than it's belly can.
Good spotting on the raptor-like claws on the kookaburra. It's a member of the Kingfishers and eats snakes, lizards, rodents, etc.
Of course he left something out about the magpie! Yes their song is amazing but for about 1/4 of the year they will try their best to kill you!
Minor detail 😂
Only if you have somehow managed to annoy it
They remember you forever
@@annthompson1375 or if they don't know you!
Hey Girls, one of the joys of our birds. My wife and I actually hand feed a family of magpies and on a daily basis feed approximately 100 Rainbow Lorikeets.
I live
emu's are huge - equivalent of ostrich - can be over 6 foot tall. masked lapwings are also called "plovers" and they suck so hard (I call them the devil spawn choir - because they love to sing at 2am in the morning). kookaburras, parrots are everywhere
I am really enjoying your videos. A BIG hello from Melbourne Australia.
Black Cockatoo's are absolutely stunning. same family as the sulfer-crested cockatoo. but mostly black with either yellow or red colorations.
The video paid homage to the aggressiveness of the Masked Lapwing (Commonly called a Plover) they let you know they are coming in for an attack. The one to look out for is silent death from a Magpie. The first thing you know about an attack (swoop) is the snap of it's beak next to your ear! If you are really unlucky and the Maggie is super aggressive you might have contact on your skull from the super pointy beak or claws.
As others have said, make friends with them by feeding them and you won't get swooped...just never ride a pushbike near their nest. Like most Aussie motorists, magpies hate pushbike riders! LOL.
I live on a farm near the bush, so I get a lot of birds here. I have a pet sulphur crested cockatoo who talks and I feed the wild cockatoos that come here. Occasionally I get a few galahs but also crimson rosellas and maybe the odd wood duck or two! The willy wag tails might be small but they're agressive little bastards, especially against maggies (magpies), kookaburras and even a wedgie (wedge-tailed eagle) or two! Magpies are ok but beware the male magpie during breeding season as they swoop! To stop them swooping, you feed them and don't be aggresive towards them as they have good memories and never forget a face! We also get the fairy wrens around here...usually a male with two or more females.
Magpie is my all-time favourite bird. Their song is like no other bird in the world
Love this. Lots of great comments here too. Another beautiful bird is the bee eater.
Greg Postle ia a an Aussie bird photographer & painter. His paintings are absolutely stunning.. I’m sure you would love them.
Never thought I was much of a bird person until I moved to Melbourne and the number and barrier of birds I see on a daily basis is so reduced. I really miss hearing and seating so many different birds. Re the last bird I’ve never heard of it or seen it.
About half of these birds were common in my old city and I would see or hear on a daily basis.
Used to have a couple of tawny frog mouths in a tree on my property. Loved watching them.
Debbie can’t visit Australia during September to November if she’s scared of birds. The magpies are ferocious.
They used the Kookaburra in Jungle movies that is why you think they sound like a monkey
Oooooh!!!! This makes sense!!
The opening of Indiana Jones! 😂
@@victoriagill1588 And "Creature From the Black Lagoon" as well!
LOVE Creature From the Black Lagoon!
1 amazing bird which is my absolute favourite. I have them in my yard is the bush stone Curlew they are on the endangered list. I love the eyes are stunning and k ees bend backwards. A must watch video.
I love Rainbow Lorikeets. Edinburgh zoo used to have them in a walk through aviary. You could buy pots of nectar and feed them. You'd hold the pot and they'd land on your hand, edge along your finger and feed from the cup of nectar. It was probably no more than a desert spoon of nectar in each pot, but I always spent a good bit of spare change early in an Edinburgh visit and again before I left. You'd regularly have 4 or 5 on your hand, arm and even head at any given time in the aviary.
Magpies are terrible for swooping but their call is beautiful in the mornings. I love them 💗
dunno about poems about magpies. they’re pretty awesome though. many Aussie’s have personal relationships with their local magpies, butcher birds, kookaburras, minas, and many others. People hand feed them, and magpie parents teach their young how to behave around humans, before they are forced to leave home after helping their parents raise the newest season of young.
The wedgetail eagle might look like the juvenile american eagle from a distance but they’ve got a wingspan of over 2m (7ft), and they hunt land mammals.
The willy wagtail is one of my favourite birds, it will defend its territory from birds that can be more than 10x their weight. One aboriginal language calls them a “Djiti-Djiti”, which, when said out loud, is exactly how they sound when they make an alarm or territorial call.
The Lapwing, also called a plover, is an amazing fighting bird which will actually hit people in the head with their wings that have BONES growing out of them in spurs. They are amazing parents, but due to roads, its not often that you see a parent pair managing to get more than one out of 3/4 chicks into adulthood.
Thanks so much for enjoying our birds!
The caroling call of the magpie is absolutely gorgeous to hear, and a joy to wake up to. Highly recommend you find some audio of them. They have regularly been voted Australia’s favorite bird, but keep your head down in September when they’re nesting, as the males are notorious for swooping from behind in defense of their territory. On average two or three people lose an eye each year to magpies. I myself lost a chunk of hair and scalp walking to school when I was 5. Still love them, though, and they are incredibly intelligent.
Other iconic birds he missed are the lyrebird (beautiful tail feathers and amazing mimics), king parrots, black cockatoos, and many many more.
We get cockatoos, lorikeet, magpies and sometimes crows, where I live we don't get kookies, etc, but the few birds we do get it's beautiful to watch when they're out
❤ the video,really great to see all thisr different birds.❤
The Lyre Bird, so beautiful and they can copy any bird call or any noise in their environment
Great video. Magpies are happy to interact with humans when they aren't nesting. You just have to provide a very safe setting for them. Once they get used to you and know they are safe in an area you have made for them, e.g. you back yard, they start bringing their young. And then their mates follow. They are very intelligent birds and their antics can be comical . Their warbling at certain times of the day such as early morning is a real treat. We are very lucky where we live - depending on the season and time of day, our neighbourhood is always full of magpies, kookaburras, watlebirds, sulfur crested cockatoos, pink and gray gallahs, rosellas and a large variety of other parrots, robins, silvereyes, thornbills, wrens, pigeons...the list goes on. With such a wet year this year bird populations have gone ballistic.
As an Aussie, I have to say that I was surprised by the robins - I did not know we had any of those little guys, let alone such a variety!
What else I can say about this list?
Kookaburra: This guy is the largest of all kingfishers. Apart from their "laughing" call, they are known to prey on smaller snakes and lizards, as well as fish from your backyard fishpond.
Magpie: Our Magpies can be quite territorial during their egg hatching season and will frequently attack people passing by the trees they nest in, occasionally causing real injury. Kids sometimes draw decoy "eyes" on the back of their bike helmets if they have to ride past magpies in "swooping" season. Magpies have a beautiful caroling call which means people love them despite their savage dive-bombing habits.
Willie Wagtail: This little fella sings long into the night with a delightful yet piercing, musical song. He's also quite territorial and will dart out in front of people walking past HIS singing position.
Emu: You asked how tall they are - typically about 1.8 metres (6 ft). Fun fact... The Australian Army went to war against emus in 1932. The emus won.
Tawny Frogmouth: Similar to an owl in habit, but they are more closely related to Nightjars.
Masked Lapwing: Also called plovers (perhaps incorrectly, but I don't care), these guys can be even more aggressive than our magpies, though they probably cause fewer injuries. With an awful screeching call, these little shits don't even have the saving grace that magpies do.
But there are SO MANY other Australian birds which could be called "iconic" for various reasons.
Cassowary: (also known as the "murder chicken") This like a "heavy cavalry" version of the emu. A little smaller but much more dangerous than the emu, with a great horny crest and talons that would put any eagle's to shame, seeing this bird leaves you in no doubt that birds really are dinosaurs!
Black cockatoo: At around 60 cm (2 ft), the red-tailed version we get up north is much larger than the Southern Yellow-tailed version. Spectacular beauties, they are.
Brolga: A species of crane known for its graceful dances.
Budgerigar: This tiny little yellow-faced desert parrot is the original wild type of the domestic "budgie" or parakeet. They occur in groups of several thousand all across the Australian outback. Apparently, these groups are called "chatters".
Rosella: Another small parrot - far more colourful than the budgerigar, but less so than the lorikeet.
Lyrebird: The most remarkable mimic of any bird I know. Appears on the obverse side of our 10 cent coin - it's THAT iconic!
Curlew: A nocturnal bird with a call not entirely unlike the bloodcurdling scream of a woman or child that you might hear in a horror movie.
Drongo: A relative of the cuckoo whose name has become synonymous with "fool" in Aussie slang.
Little penguin: Formerly known as the Fairy Penguin, the nightly return of these flightless marine birds to their burrows is called the "Penguin Parade" and is a major tourist attraction on Phillip Island.
Jabiru: Australia's only species of stork.
There are many more interesting birds in and around this magnificent island continent, but perhaps not many more that are worthy of the term "iconic".
We have a huge tree in our backyard and so many beautiful birds build thier nests and i couod spend all day just watching them especially the beautiful parrots 🦜
I live in suburban Melbourne. Only a 5min walk to a nearby creek and there are 20 different species of birds in a 1km to 1 mile stretch. My wife and I go for regular walks in the evenings and we can see and hear the Carawongs, Magpies, Ravens, and Wattle Birds quite regularly. We do occasionally see and hear Black Cockatoos, Corellas, Silver Crested Cockatoos, Galahs, Rosellas, amongst some other birds. Rarely do we hear a Kookaburra or two.
I'm inland in Canberra, so slightly different commonness to some of these. Not many wagtails or robins here. Never seen the rainbow cockatoo. But almost everything else yes. Fairy wrens, Sulfur crested cockatoos, Magpies, Kookaburras, Frogmouths, Wedgetails, etc. Particularly around here we have beautiful Rosellas - Crimson and Golden types, and King Parrots, all are stunning. We also have Peregrine falcons - but they don't hang out close to town often, so are rare to see. Also have the Powerful Owl - I saw one that had roosted in a local park, a cockatoo screeched and woke it up, so it went after the Cockie and ripped it apart with it's talons. Was amazing to see. Wedgetails are enormous! you should look for some pictures where you can see their scale. I saw one pick up a medium-sized cattle dog that was defending some lambs from the wedgie.
Kookaburras are known for Laughing at dawn and dusk, but they also do it when there's a weather change - I'm guessing due to pressure, but you can use them to anticipate rain or a storm.
Magpies are renowned not poetically, but because in Spring, they become super territorial to protect their nests, and will swoop at people and often cut or injure people. Cyclists often attach zip ties like spikes to their helmets to try to deter magpies from ramming their helmets.
Some time ago I listened to academic bird specialist on radio who had written a book on Australian Magpies after studying the song of the Australian Magpie (in no way related to the English magpie) in comparison to songs of other birds around the world. She found that the Australian Magpie's song is extraordinary and far superior in 'vocal' range, melody, etc. etc. than any other bird! I love listening to it.
Im pretty sure I actually studied with that academic and they also proved that the Australian Magpie is the most intelligent animal in the world.
@@Wenwaters Yes, maggies are amazing birds!
Love our Aussie birds, but my favourite is not on the list;
The Regent Bowerbird. Stunning Balck and Yellow. Worth a look.
Cheers, Marc D
Tuning in from Devonport, Tasmania. I live 500m from a reserve and 1.5km from the centre of town. In my garden we have visits from the masked lapwing (we call it a Plover), Kookaburras, rainbow lorikeets, cockatoos, galahs and many different wrens, robins and sparrows. I have also seen some birds of prey.
The Plovers like to nest on the roof of my kids school, particularly the kindergarten. They swoop at the little 4 & 5 year olds and basically force all the kids to have to play inside!
I love the Willy Wagtail, they’re adorable. I used to see them where I lived as a child. The Ibis (bin chicken) is a freaky looking bird that will come and steal your food right out of your hand if you’re eating in a city park. Those beaks up close are scary!
You’d get a laugh out of the Bin Chicken song on TH-cam.
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If you don’t live in the middle of a city, kookaburras, rainbow lorikeets and Sulfur crested cockatoos are common in your background along many parts of the east coast. Watch out for Magpies during breeding and hatching season!!! Thanks for the reaction video, you guys are fun to watch!
Hi from Hobart, Tasmania.
Rainbow Bee Eaters, more parrots species we have many, loved your enthusiastic response to our birds that we are obviously proud of . Cheers
I regularly see most of these and others in my backyard. The rosella is a favourite.
"A wondrous bird
Is the Pelican,
His beak holds more
than his belly can!"
American Poet Ogden Nash.
We live 80 kilometres north of Sydney and can often see crimson rosellas, galahs, red tailed black cockatoos, sulphur crested cockatoos, lorikeets, corellas, king parrots, kookaburras, tawny frog mouths, noisy minors and bush turkeys. The video you watched is only the tip of the iceberg. Enjoy checking these out and there are many more.
We have magpies everywhere, cockatoos, Galahs, rainbow lorikeets, and rosellas in our neighbourhood (eastern suburbs, melbourne) Occasionally we see a tawny frog mouth or kookaburra.
Used to see black cockatoos a lot in townsville
I'm from Perth in Western Australia. My favourite parrots here are the Rainbow Lorikeet, the Australian Ringneck which we call a 28, the Sulphur Crested Cockatoo, The Western Corella, Pink Galah and the Red Tailed Cockatoo. I also love the Willy Wag Tails, Kookaburras, Magpies, Pelicans, Ducks, Moorhens, Western Wattlebirds, Little Penguins and Doves to name a few. Actually there isn't a bird I don't love. In my garden I see, Kookaburras, Willy Wagtails, Crows, Magpies, 28's, Sulpur Crested Cockatoos, Pink Galahs, Doves, Rainbow Lorrikeets, and the Western Wattlebird. Perth doesn't have the bin chicken. According to Google (which can vary depending on the site you view), the number of bird species for each state is:
Western Australia (WA) - over 500.
South Australia (SA) - about 450.
Victoria (Vic) - more than 450.
Tasmania - more than 350.
New South Wales (NSW) - about 365.
Canberra - greater then 200.
Queensland (QLD) - 684 recorded.
Northern Territory (NT) - over 400.
Many of these species may occur in various states, so the total number of bird species in Australia is 850.
Should definitely look, and listen, to the Lyrebird. They are amazing mimics. Also the Cassowary is very unusual and beautiful.
The fairy wren is one of a whole variety of thumb sized birds that decend on my lawn foraging for seeds. The pied and grey butcher birds are the best songsters globally the pied sometimes having haunting melodies. The black cockatoo is amazing.. it fashions a drum stick to beat hollow logs for you know what and it's call is a ghostly " hello "..
Hi ladies, budgie, crow, raven, finches, cockatiel, lyrebird, bell bird, black cockatoo, king parrot, rosella. Luv from Penrith, NSW.
I have 5 kookaburras, 2 magpies, a few rainbow lorikeets and the odd cockatoo visit me me regularly for snacks in Sydney
Some other "Iconic" Aussie birbs - 'Budgerigar' (Popular in the internation pet trade, often reffered to as a 'Parakeet') & 'Cockatiel', 'King Parrot', 'Crimson Rosella', & 'Cassowary' (The closest thing to a Velociraptor that exists today, related to the Emu). Oh! And the 'BLACK Cockatoo'!
Many more than even that of course.
I live in a country-city town called Mildura and we get lots parents in our front yard like the Rainbow Lorikeet, A Red-rumped parrot also know as Grass Parrot, King Parrot, ringnecks which is alot them, budgerigar and a bush budgerigar, red tailed black cockatoo there are so many more that to name a few. We also had Eastern Rosella as picture on our Sauce bottles. We do have some finches too.
Come to Adelaide, Australia! I am originally from the sub tropics but now live in the "Mediterranean" part of Australia in the south with my partner and toddlers. My partner and I plus Maltese Australian family can show you all the awesome birding sites, plus snorkeling spots, vineyards, gourmet food, restaurants, café spots etc! We can also take you to the little Italy of Adelaide. Pasta and pizza and any other condiments or Italian food to die for! Best fresh sashimi, seafood from our local fish monger, and delicious coffee, tea etc nearby
There's also a gorgeous Rosella couple in my neighborhood that you might want to photograph, along with the wrens, wagtails, honeyeaters and more!
Great video! Shame he didn’t mention the Lyrebird - they’re extremely impressive and mimic almost any sound (dogs, people, car alarms, camera shutters etc) and the Cassowary - they’re similar size to the emu but look more like dinosaurs 😄 we are so blessed to have so much amazing wildlife.
I love camping and Australia's bush morning's are beautiful every area of Australia has its own unique soundtrack. I love waking and sititng by fire as dawn breaks listening to where I am, no matter where I am I can tell by the bird calls. There is only one bird call I have never Identified, its starts 4am in Riverena area of Australia and sounds like a song not a call.... one day I will see the bird making the call or find out what it is!
Also not bird calls but the size of some flocks of birds in the desert are so loud due to quantity of birds. Spoogies or sparrows can black out the sky at times!
PS Fugg Magpies - they are t6he reason everyone has eyes drawn on bike helmets!
I’ve lived in Victoria, NSW and now QLD so very familiar with most of these birds. The one missing from the top 20 is the Black Cockatoo my absolute fave….majestic and fast disappearing bird. I would also recommend the Blue Faced Honeyeater (Banana Bird), the Australasian Fig Bird, and the Osprey, all of which I see regularly in my garden. And what about the Currawong? Looks like a cross between a crow and a magpie, but with the most interesting, musical and sublime calls.
The big one he left out was the Cassowary. It is a very large, flightless bird, that looks like it belongs in Jurassic Park. I live in Sydney, where rainbow lorikeets are literally back yard birds.
Yep our Robin's are rocking,
I lived in Oz for most of my life, and I've seen most of them. I'd also recommend the King Parrot. We had a pair who visited us every year, and sit of the back verandah rail waiting for us to give them some seed. Also, the photo didn't show it very well, but the Wedge-tail Eagle is one of the largest in the world with a maximum recorded wingspan of close to 3m. (or 9 feet in your lingo)
I love to see Currawongs. They’re very shy unlike magpies. Also Wattle birds. We have many many finchs, I walk in a Forrest park in the mountains and love to see the the little finch’s hopping for fern to fern. I’m surprised to not see a peacock and a lyrebird. Or more stalk like bird like the brolga! Brolgas are soooooo iconic! Omg, spoon bills! Heron! Egret! CASSAWARY! Omg I’m a total bird need. On Phillip island where I’m from and my parents still live he have the Cape Barron geese, the little penguins and the pukeko!!! (Purple hens) how could I not be a bird nerd growing up there. My kids are now bird lovers too. I got a new bird bath for Mother’s Day lol. I’ll watch you so bird content until the cows come home!!!!❤
Few birds we have around here that I consider iconic that were not mentioned. The stone curlew, an amazing call and endangered, and the brolga.
Seen almost every one I'd have to say the lyre bird and the king parrot are pretty amazing also the sulphur crested black cockatoo is pretty cool
We had a sulphur crested cockatoo living in our lounge roomfor 20 years... it was noisy when it required attention of food that we were eating. Used to compete with our German Sheppard. They could demolish wooden structures.
these compare to the birds of paradise , totally stunning , we have a few here in the UK . my favourite here in the UK is the White Swan . love the video guys , lots of love
A good list and i loved the photos. I love the black cockatoos of northern queensland.
Bin Chickens?
I'm from Melbourne and we call them Ibis's.
They are very numerous here in Adelaide and can be seen in shopping centre car parking areas.
They are quite large at around two feet tall and their beaks are around 30 cms long.
Not sure if everyone knows that those budgerigars which are so popular around the world are native to Australia. They congregate around billabongs ( water holes ) in the outback and the bush, sometimes in their thousands.
A must see Australian bird ,The Royal Regent Bowerbird ,hopefully in flight
The Curlew I'm far North Queensland is amazing. Their cries at night time are haunting. Very common around suburbia
For comparison sake, the Wedge Tailed Eagle can get large enough to have a wingspan of up to 9' 4", and can weigh up to 12.9 lbs. Sadly it's rare to see one that large anymore as farmers spent too many years shooting them, but they're protected now and population numbers are recovering. They're my favourite Aussie bird of prey, and where I live we're fortunate to have quite a few around here.
Other birds worth checking out...
Cassowary
Pheasant Coucal
Brolga
Gouldian Finch
Regent Bowerbird
Western Whistler
Lyrebird
Crested Pigeon
Emerald Dove
Cape Barren Goose
Eastern Rosella
Forest Kingfisher
The sound from Kookaburras was often used in movies as sound tracks for jungle settings, such as Tarzan. That’s why you thought it was monkeys.
Thank you for sharing this and your American perspective!!! He missed the Lyrebird!
Cape Barron Goose is also something to add to this list. They live around our house and the chicks are fuzzy, stripey tennis balls.
I'd add to the list: Barking Owl, Australian Boobook, Gouldian Finch, Azure Kingfisher, Rainbow Bee-eater, Little Penguin, Royal Penguin
Swift parrot. Endangered. Fast. So beatiful. I'm lucky that they visit when my blue gums flower.
Hahaha loves birds and has a shirt from a place that sells chickens....that's gold 😂😂😂😂 and of course the Breaking Bad reference 👍
The Magpie's are renowned for swooping down on unsuspecting walkers or bicycle rider's in the Suburbs . They swoop down to protect their nests . The other bird you need to see is the Black Cockatoo a relative to the Sulfur Crested Cockatoo . Seen in the outback of Australia rare to see though .
The Kookaburra calls were used in the old Tarzan movies. The Wedgetailed Eagle makes the Bald Eagle look like a chicken in size comparison.
In the last couple of years, I've had a pair of rainbow lorikeets nesting in a tree hollow in my yard here in Melbourne. I think only one baby has survived to adulthood.
There are dozens of black swans in Melbourne's Albert Park lake, only about 4km out of the city
Most of these you can see around Melbourne or Victoria, as well as Melbourne Zoo aviary and Healesville sanctuary. Most you can see in our bushland, as well as kangaroos, echidnas, koalas etc. Our beach areas have tons of bin chickens, seagulls, pelicans, corellas, just don’t feed them or they won’t leave you alone. Butcher birds and magpies you can hand feed if they trust you. Pretty much everywhere in Victoria you will see every species listed here. I’ve seen them all at one point. He forgot to mention a few, like Cassowary, Rosellas, black Cockatoo and Fairy Penguins. I would highly recommend a trip to Victoria if you want to see most of these. 😊
One thing that will surprise you the most about Australia is that the 2 animals on our Coat of Arms can not take a backwards step only forwards or sideways . The Kangaroo and the Emu , as with the Australian culture we don't back down in any situation lol . Kangaroos box with their front paws and use their back feet to rip open your stomach with their back legs if cornered , and Emu's peck and charge you . Both can travel at over 40 kilometres an hour or 25 mph and travel over 4 kms or 2.5 miles at one time . Both can get to be over 7 foot high if live long enough .
Love Galar's. In the UK we call bird watchers Twitchers. As I write I have 2 baby Magpies stomping about on my Conservatory (sun room) roof. My favourite UK bird is the Robin they are just so cute. Starlings are the worst, especially when elderberry trees are in fruit. Starlings are always in groups flying so everywhere gets showered in purple poop.
Most common birds are the magpie, we hate them because they'll swoop you in spring like crazy. Sulphur crested cockatoo( white with yellow head feathers), pink and grey galah, both are in groups of like 30 to 200 and wake you with their screeching in trees or on lawns and chew on gumnuts and leave quite a mess below, others we commonly get are Willy wagtails, black swan, the bin chicken, tawney frogmouth, wedge tail eagle.
The Kookaburra is the largest species of Kingfisher, they are VERY noisy.
The American robin looks like some sort of thrush.
In 2004 I was on a house boat on the Murray River. At about Four-thirty in the morning a Kookaburra started making a noise, which set of a near-by flock of Cockatoos. It was not a restful experience.
Australian birds are beautiful and interesting, because they are so unlike the varieties elsewhere.
I love Willy wagtails, they are everywhere. Magpies as well but I don’t like them because of many swooping instances. Crows may not just be Aussie but they are everywhere as well. I also love mudlarks, which have different names all over Australia but they look like small magpies. I am happy he included the bower bird, we lived near one and dad would keep an eye on the nest to see what colour scheme it was each year. One year was white, another was blue, etc. my dad had a lot of fun watching it.
I was surprised he didn’t include cassowaries or black cockatoos, and I see in the comments someone mentioning the lyrebird - that should definitely have been included. I would have include the bustard as well, but that might just be because I grew up with a book of Dreamtime stories and I’m pretty sure the bustard had he’s own.
Male Fairy-wrens display vivid colours... Splendid Fairy-wrens (black & blue & blue)... Superb Fairy-wrens (black & blue & white)... White-winged Fairy-wrens (blue & blue & white)... Variegated Fairy-wrens (black & blue & chestnut)... Red-backed Fairy-wrens (black & red)...
Females are generally brown all over, with sometimes just a hint of colour.
This morning I woke up to Kookaburras laughing away...that's in outer suburban Melbourne. Quite often we'll see yellow crested cockatoo. Beautiful
Ps . He seems to have left out the Cassowary. Another large non flying bird similar size to the emu.
Australia has sixteen species of robins and nine species of fairy wrens. I get three of them, the superb, red-backed, and variegated fairy wrens in my back yard in northern NSW