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!

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.

Can't believe the Cassowary bird didn't make the list. A very unique bird with a somewhat fearsome reputation

I’m surprised he didn’t include the Rosella (Eastern and Crimson varieties), the King Parrot and the iconic and world-famous Budgerigars. You need to check all these out.

I'm a British immigrant now living in Sydney. The amount, S I Z E and colour of the birds here really astounded me. My first introduction was the Ibis in the Sydney Botanic Gardens. I'm 183cm and they come up to my knee. Also, the sounds of the dawn chorus are completely different. I have cockatoos, kookaburras, Rainbow Lorikeets and magpies near my home and it is L O U D and really melodious. Look up "magpies warbling" if you want the effect.

The Magpies dawn chorus makes you so happy to be alive. Its beautiful

The black cockatoo is definitely missing, lyrebird and cassowary. I think you need to find a list of the birds that also give you an example of the sounds they make. I love hearing the Kookaburras sing every morning. It makes me feel so at peace and at "home". My dad's favourite was always the Willy Wagtail. I've never heard or seen the Gang Gang Cockatoo before.

there is a very good reason why the kookaburra 'sounds like a monkey', its because in a lot of jungle movies the monkeys you hear are actually kookaburras (usually added in afterword's, but occasionally because the movie was shot in Australia)

A great list of iconic birds. I think these were probably more common to the photographers part of Australia. Coming from Victoria, I would add to that list the Superb Lyrebird (a bird that can mimic everything from babies crying to chainsaws), the Eastern Rosella (famous for being the emblem of Tomato Sauce), the Crimson Rosella, the Brolga, the Little Penguin (yes, it is a bird!), the Helmeted Honeyeater (the State bird), the Bell miner or 'Bellbird' (which makes the 'tink' sound of bell in the bush), the Wattlebird, the Peregrine Falcon (they nest in skyscrapers of Melbourne), the Silvereye and the Australian King Parrot.

You can see a surprising amount of these in the suburbs of Melbourne (namely Sulphur crested cockatoo, rainbow lorikeet, magpies) I would add to the list: Black and red cockatoo Rosella And how he didn’t include the Cassowary (basically a living dinosaur) is inexcusable. Btw, I’m a tour guide in Melbourne, if you ever want any inside info (or to plan a trip here) let me know 😊

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.

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!!

A shame that he didn't play the sounds these birds make. That is the most amazing thing about Aussie birds. The song of the magpie, the screech of the cockatoo, are iconic Aussie. You absolutely know you are in Aus when you hear them..

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.

Nice selection by the fellow Aussie. Check out: The Australian King Parrot, OH!! The Budgie (Budgerigar), the Lyrebird (find a channel that has recorded their sounds), Cassowary, Pigeons like the Royal Pigeon and the Crested Pigeon, Kingfishers (other than the Kookaburra). There SO many more it's ridiculous.

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 😅

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.

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.

Our Magpie's call is understood to be the most musically complex call. It is really amazing to listen to and is just a natural feature of the Aussie soundscape . In my area the Magpie call, the sulphur cockatoo call, the kookaburra, and the Bellbird just makes me feel at home.

As much as many people hate masked lapwings, I actually really love their call. From a bit of a distance, I think it's one of my favourite birdcalls, up there with the bellbird, lyrebird, eastern whipbird, and the currawong.

late to the party but I live on a mountain in the south and every morning my backyard is full of Self-Crested Cockatoos, Black Cockatoos, Kookaburras, Rainbow Lorikeets, and Magpies... I highly recommend finding a video with the songs these birds sing - it's a beautiful symphony and a wonderful way to wake up in the morning =)

The lyrebird is soo iconic. I wish he had the bird call of half of these birds. Some are so vocal

Willie wagtails are awesome little birds, they love to follow you around when mowing the lawn to pounce on any bugs or insects that disturbed by the lawn mower just the way they act is adorable and kinda like they are so proud of themselves

Hello girls, love your work. I used to live in Canberra (pron "Can -bra"). My wife and I used to feed them so they hung around. I spent a lot of time outdoors rebuilding a car and I am sure ended up as the main entertainment for a few of these birds. The Kookaburras used to sit on power lines watching me and would laugh every time I dropped a tool, skinned by knuckles or hit my head on the car bonnet. The magpies were also a hoot. In Oz you either love them or hate them. They would love walking around close to me inspecting the tools and oily parts. I once had one walk under the car and perch on my stomach looking up into the bottom of the motor to see what I was doing.

I live on the western edge of the Blue Mountains and we see many of these birds in our yard, including Magpies, Sulphur Crested Cockatoos, Gang Gang Cockatoos and many honeyeaters. A bird he didn't mention was the Wattle Bird, which is one of my favourites. Nor did he mention our stunning Rosellas or the magnificent King Parrot. I've known Americans who have been freaked out by the size of our birds.

Fun fact: All of the world's song birds originated in Australia. Kookaburras are the largest of the kingfishers. Our magpies are not true magpies but are closely related to butcher birds. They are very intelligent and are not afraid of humans. We have lots of bird species where I live. There is a small lake at the edge of town which has more than 30 species living there. We have lots of parrot species which appear at different seasons. He has only touched on a small sample of birds. The most iconic of Australian birds is the budgerigar which is known worldwide.

Cassowary is iconic. Black cockatoos also. Australia also has a bird of paradise. Love sunbirds Brush turkeys And one of my other favourite birds the Torres Strait pigeon and brolga and white faced herons. You should take a look at the Gouldian Finch for a colour burst. At school we used to throw food up into the sky for whistling kites to grab. You should check out the sounds of the superb Lyre bird

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

I had the privilege of hosting a pair of Kookaburras in our yard for 7 years. Got introduced each year to their babies. Np hand feeding (only once a day.) Would come when called. Such beautiful, friendly birds! And a great wake up call in the morning.

I love kookaburras. I hear their laugh nearly every morning at dawn. Babies sometimes land on my balcony.

I think it's a good list. Around half of these birds are quite often seen in big cities like Sydney. The Cassowary is probably iconic as well, though it lives in the far north, and is probably the world's most dangerous bird - kind of looks like a dinosaur.

Oh Natasha/Debbie, We've just come back from Australia, 10 days ago, we were staying with my daughter who lives in NSW, she also loves birds..We saw her feed the Kookaburra's with minced meat, she placed on a tray, then lo! and behold, mom and dad came flying down, fed, then down came their three babies, which my daughter fed from her hand! What a thrill that was!

Thanks for reviewing my video, apologies it took so long to comment as I just saw this video. I agree with lots of comments, I really should have included the Lyrebird and numerous others, the issue is we have so many wonderful birds it was hard to include them all. Thanks again, Cheers, Duade

We have fairey wrens, willy wagtails, sulphur crested cockatoos, black swans, pelicans, plovers, maggies, rainbow lorikeets, bin chickens, spoonbills visit our backyard and the canal we live on often. The bird I think you might enjoy checking out is the "lyre bird".

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.

I live 9km from the city centre at Nundah on the Northside of Brisbane. Around my place I often see rainbow and scaly breasted lorikeets, sulphur crested cockatoos, galahs, little corellas, pale headed rosellas, crimson rosellas, King parrots and the occasional red tailed black cockatoo, and yellow tailed black cockatoo. Wow, that’s just the parrots around home! There’s also drongos, kookaburras, rainbow kingfishers, magpies, peewees, butcher birds (which have a visceral hatred of Kookaburras), Willy wagtails, noisy minors, Australian crows, stone curlews, masked plovers, Superb Fairy Wren, Red Backed Fairy Wren, wood ducks, pelicans, Australian Ibis, straw necked ibis, black swans when the local seasonal lagoon is full… And there’s many more I often see but you get the picture. You’ll be amazed at just how many different bird species there are in Australia. Parrots and pigeons first evolved in Australia then spread around the world and we have an enormous number of song birds.

Hi Ladies! I’m a new subscriber from Down Under! I think it’s ironic that 8m watching your video about our birds, as my husband has gone away on a trip with some people, photographing birds! He will be away for a month! He has already told me had found at least two new species of birds! It his hobby now that he has retired! Thank you for this! Love your channel! Peace and Blessings from Australia.

Our Wedgetail Eagle is bigger than a bald eagle. I see at least half of these birds in my neighbourhood every day on the east coast. It's quite the symphony at dawn and dusk. You should watch a video about Australian bird sounds. There's so many unique ones and I agree with this guy - the magpie warbling is the most beautiful sound though they make other calls too. I also love hearing Bellbirds in the bushland.

We placed feeders outside our bedroom window and every morning twenty plus Lorikeets fly in and treat us to a visual pleasure.

I live in central Victoria and many of this birds visit my garden. The sulphur crested cockatoos are often referred to as the teenagers of the bird world. The fly in large flocks and screech even when in flight! The black cockatoo is magnificent. You must listen to recordings of the lyre bird, magpie, whip bird and kookaburra to really appreciate them. I know there are videos on u-tube. There are so many more for you to check out.

We have so many awesome birds in Aus. I hope it stays that way for a while longer

My favorites the Pelican and the Cockatoo gorgeous creautures. Thank you for the video mujeres hermosas.

Some fun facts to note: Kookaburra is also known as a snake eater because they literally hunt snakes amongst their other prey. They've actually been classified as a member of the kingfisher family. Magpies like most corvids are super intelligent and social. They've been tested solving complex problems like understanding buoyancy and water volume to obtain treats. They also have been clocked remembering up to 100 individual human faces and retaining that recognition fir 20 years. While they're known to commonly terrorise and swoop passers by in nesting season, if you befriend one before nesting season all the magpies in your neighbourhood won't swoop you. They're a highly sociable bird. Wedge tailed eagles are the third largest eagle in the world, and while their head markings might remind you of a juvenile bald eagle, they're significantly larger. In areas where red kangaroos roam (Australia's largest native land mammal where males stand 2 metres tall) the eagles have honed a hunting technique to dive bomb the kangaroo from a great height using their momentum and their 3rd talon to strike and penetrate the back of the skull, crushing the brain stem and killing a full grown dominant male red kangaroo instantly. Rainbow lorikeets are badass birds that even magpies won't mess with. They're known to get into your fruit trees, ripping open the fruit and simply leaving it in the sun to ferment. They come back up to several days later and get stuck into the fermented fruit and become as drunk as lords, hanging off the tree and getting into all sorts of mischief. A flock of drunken rainbow lorikeets is one of the funniest things I've seen. Two rainbow lorikeets destroyed an entire berry tree of mine in a single afternoon. A pity he didn't capture the cassowary, this bird has a fearsome reputation. If you want to see an evolved irritable angry lethal dinosaur, the cassowary is your best bet. You should watch a Davud Attenborough youtube clip on the lyrebird. It has the ability to mimic all sorts of sounds with amazing accuracy.

Whenever I leave Australia one of the things I miss the most is the sound of magpies. Kookaburra's are completely iconic and are always wonderful to hear, but maggies are really the sound of Melbourne. If you want to see Galah's and Cockatoo's head to Yarrawonga, literally thousands of them.

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 ❤

Hello ladies. We are blessed with an amazing variety of gorgeous birdlife & tend to take them for granted. I live in the bush & am woken every morning by kookaburras, nature's alarm clock. Years ago we used them laughing jackasses but that term has fallen out of favour. We feed the Rainbow Lorrikeets, crested pigeons & apostle birds every day. The crested lapwing I call a spurwing plover. Every area of Australia has their beautiful species. Most Aussies when they travel overseas are struck by the silence in the forests & scrub in many countries

I can think of a few- the cassowary, the native mynah bird, the native raven.... There's a bit of a list to look at! ❤ BTW love you, beautiful ladies and your wonderful friendly channel! From an Aussie admirer❤❤❤

…oh, and the Powerful Owl. They are huge and beautiful.

Wow, I loved seeing all the new birds. Thanks for making learning fun 😊

Thanks ladies I really loved that and my favourite is definitely the Splendid Fairy Wren because of the beautiful blue colour, my least favourite though I didn’t hate it is probably the Magpie. Fantastic video ❤️❤️

The masked lapwing is called a plover in Australia. And when it’s nesting season you don’t dare go outside without a stick.

As soon as the Emu photo popped up my brain went "THEY'RE COMING FOR THE EGGS!" 😂

We never get tired of the sound of our birds ( except maybe cockatoos). The chorus starts pre- dawn with the kookaburras, then the magpies, and so-on. It’s not all at once, but each in turn. And always the same order. We have our morning coffee watching the fairy wrens chirping madly while darting around outside our window, sitting on the windowsill. One bird you must look at - not overly beautiful, but the most gorgeous bird call - the Rufous whistler.

Powerful owl is the one for me once seen never forgotten.

Lol what great intro for Debbie 😁 funny you two🌹

I see the majority of these around my area, all beautiful birds, even the ugly one. We also have a few different types of falcons around the place, crested pigeons, corellas and more. I love them all, just fabulous. We take them for granted until we hear others react to them - makes me appreciate them even more.

How weird but i was talking to my dad this morning about our Maggies that visit several times a day for food,& said to him how lucky we are in Straya to have the amount of unique birds we have that the rest of the world don't have. I also get Galahs, Kookas, Lorikeets, Rosellas in thd yard for free food &, clean water

You need to take a look at a video of our Lyrebird. The sounds they make will blow you away. I feed a family of Magpies & bin chickens. I also have drongos, wattle birds & Willie Wagtails that come to visit.

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!

Loved the video,and lovely birds,and to get good insight into it,thank-you.❤

I see honey eaters every day - and I get visited by about 20 lorikeets every morning - I also see butcher birds, magpies crows kookaburras other parrots Tawny Frogmouths etc. and I live in the inner north of Brisbane - BTW most emus carry their head about level with a human shoulder but some are much taller

Thanks for another great video 🤘👍

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.

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 😁

The blue wren is a very beautifull common back yard bird along with the rainbow lorrikeet. for the best bird calls you cant go past the lyre bird

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.

"Willie Wagtail" sounds like a creature from Pickmin 😁

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".

I teared up at the first bird. The blue fairy wren was my late mother's favourite bird. The number of photo's and painting's she had of them was legendary in our family.

Hi Ladies, as a bird loving Brit, I loved this video especially. We have avocets over here (without the red heads), and a pair of Black Swans visit a local lake every year so I count myself quite fortunate. Several of the other species are available to see at Birdworld in Farnham in Surrey, definitely one of my favourite places to go if I am in the area. Keep up the great work, and catch you on Friday.

Red tailed black cockatoo is one of my favourites. Fortunate enough to see a small flock when working up north years ago.

Budgies are a native Australian bird found in pet shops and homed as pets all around the world .They can be found in massive groups of thousands . . I love you guys and your reactions giday from Newcastle Australia .

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If you go to Bald Hill Lookout in Sydney, there are often Crimson Rosellas and Rainbow Lorikeets walking beside you as you sit to enjoy the view of the ocean. I used to live near a lake and black and white swans would chase people away on the footpaths to protect their baby swans. The Ibis is a god in Egypt and you often see the Ibis masks in those fancy masquerade parties, but we call them Bin Chickens the same way you call raccoons Trash Pandas.

I have kookaburra's turn up on my backyard fence most days. They're my favourite ☺

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.

We have the willy wag tails, magpies, kookaburras, wrens and a bird that looks like a wild giant blue/green buggies, frog mouths and not a bird but fruit bats. I'm with Debbie bird are pretty from a distance. 😂

Cockatoo's are a beautiful menace. You should find a video of the Cockatoo's causing havoc with bins and destroying houses.

I'm from the West Coast, and we have problems with the Kookaburra and the Rainbow Lorikeet here as they were both introduced from 'over east' and they are pests here. The Wren family are stunning little birds, I have both Splendid and Red Winged that nest here every year. For Natasha's info, the Emu is a BIG bird ~6ft tall, and the Wedge Tail Eagle is bigger than the bald eagle (by quite a margin), I have had the pleasure of seeing them 'up close' in the wild. There was a communications site that I visited regularly (for maintenance) where I had to climb the tower and inspect every visit, and there was always a pair of 'Wedgies' that would come in an 'check you out' as you were climbing, and would usually circle a couple of times before getting bored and flying away, so I got to see them up close on many occasions (down to about 10ft away, while they were in flight, wild birds not tame either), spectacular!

The yellow and also ted tailed black Cockatoo........ The Azure kingfisher........ The cockatiel...... all amazing birds as well

love the vid natasha u shud do NZ ZEALAND BIRDS AN LANDSCAPE 🐦🐦🐧🐧

The tawny frogmouth has other names as well, including the mopoke or morpork. These names reflect the sound they make. To me they sound like an actual frog announcing "Mopoke! Mopoke! Mopoke!"

Where I used to live I had a gumtree outside of my window. Everyday Ii would wake up to Rainbow Lorrilkeets feeding. I miss them. 🌈

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.

My husband has photographed many aussie birds we have found in our travels. Saw a couple of wedged tailed eagles on our trips over east and back, one flew closely over our car and I saw the talons up close. Amazing but scary, happy to share some of our photos with you guys if you have an email I can send them to.

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.

Willie wagtail is my grandfathers animal spirit and to my people if the willie wagtail is wagging that tail and singing they’re telling us that someone is or going to pass away. Also the Rosella is an amazingly beautiful bird.

So, so many beautiful birds here in Australia. I have a fondness for birds as well. I've got an unusual bird on my favourites list called Bush Stone Curlew. A mainly nocturnal bird that has a haunting call.

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!

They used the Kookaburra in Jungle movies that is why you think they sound like a monkey

I love that American Robin with beautiful brown belly, that's a beautiful bird.

In the UK there are many pubs called "The Black Swan", but invariably the locals irreverently refer to the pub as "The Mucky Duck" 😊

All birds are amazing and beautiful but my favourite Australian bird is the bush stone curlew, very elegant, beautiful big eyes, often in groups and its calls are unmistakably eerie. Worth a look up and listen to its call. Great video 😊

Oh.... Princess Parrot, Superb Parrot, Red Rumped Grass Parrot, Rosellas ...... look up Australian parrots... there are so many. Butcher Birds, Currawongs, Jabiru, many finches...... you'll be in your element Natasha

An Aussie here, in South East Queensland - I Live close to bushland - we have magpies that will come into my garage looking for food (Ok, I have a stash of dried mealworms). Sulphur Crested Cockatoos are occasionally pets - I had a friend with one, who would perch on your shoulder, walk down your arm, and then plunge its head into the glass of beer you were drinking - then go hang upside down (drunk) from the clothesline. You sometimes see a flock of 50+ of them We have will wagtails that will come and perch on my hand when gardening. Rainbow Lorikeets - just south of here (at a place called Currumbin) is an animal sanctuary that started out as a bird sanctuary which would have hundreds of them come every day to be hand fed (a mix of bread, milk and honey, as I recall) - prior to the sanctuary opening they would hang out in my Grandfather's back yard, a few miles up the road. Kookaburras, still see them regularly, and you can tempt them with strips of meat - they will grab it, and then whip it against the ground to make sure it's dead (they eat lizards and the like). Someone did a CD with 50 or so Aussie birds - if you search on apple music for "songs of disappearance" or here is a sample on youtube... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mZh9Y6tqv5espYU.html

We live in Sydney Australia and have regular visits from Rainbow Lorikeets and Cockatoos on our balcony. One of my favourite when out in the bush is the flocks of Budgerigars. They are in huge flocks

So happy to come across your channel and I am from southern NYC area and we’ve had mockingbirds terrorize our community for years now with diving at us and following us…not happy this is happening around the north/northeast..but am happy to agree with so much both of you have said and love the pic of your pups so much!

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.

❤ the video,really great to see all thisr different birds.❤

I live in South Australia and I love camping. We camp in the Flinders Rangers ( gate way to the outback) which is about 3-4 hours north of Adelaide. Many of these birds entertain us while we camp, plus many more that were not mentioned. Many I have photographed as well.