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What bird is this?
G'Day all,
I know an MTB forum is probably not the ideal place for this but it is in off-topic.
Today I had a bunch of these birds (see pics) start chewing on the handrail of the back deck. There were about 15 of them and they hung around for about 20 minutes then left and some came back a couple of hrs later.
I tried looking up the type of bird but couldn't find them anywhere. So does anyone know what type of bird they are and are they common in the mountains because I've never seen them before.
Cheers.
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That's a Gang Gang Cockatoo.
Nice looking birds
I've never seen one
Lucky I guess as they're destructive little buggers
Yeah we don't see that many of them in the upper mountains, but they come up from time to time (don't know where from). They have a different call to the sulphur-crested or black cockatoo, as well; a bit more pleasant on the ears.
You should send 'em over my way, Ian: I've got a stack of old timber that needs chipping.
They have a very creaky cry don't they. It almost sounds like a rusty shed door.
You can have them Jim, there is about a dozen hanging around now - I'm trying to re-oil the deck and they keep shiting on it!
Cheers for the heads up on Taree riding too - ill update that thread now.
Ian
Damn... I was expecting more on a Friday arvo
Nah - that's nice to see some wildlife. I really miss the balcony in my old place and the tame birds it attracted:
No such luck these days, perhaps it's time to move up to the mountains?
The lorikeets are nice. The gang gangs will pull apart your deck and crew the crap out of your roof if you let them...
I've got video somewhere of Thing 2 hand feeding wild king parrots in my back yard from a couple of years ago...
Yeah the birds are nice most of the time, we've hand fed king parrots and lorikeets. This is a pic of my mate feeding some a while ago - I cant seem to find any recent photos. The two windows in the pic are our bedroom windows so we often wake up to the wild birds feeding. This is one of the many reasons to live in the mountains.........
Cheers.
J the B is correct. Gang Gangs. Not seen too often but we hear their creaky cry every now and then.
Nice shot of the male and female King parrots.
We have heaps of sulphur crested jobbies fly over our house into Blue Gum Swamp and they have the harshest cry of any cockie. The black cockatoos on the other hand have a lovely, mournful cry.
If you don't like them chewing stuff, stop putting out seed. As soon as their food and water supply is removed they should hang out elsewhere.
But the birds are one of the benefits of living up here
We get all sorts in our garden
Galahs, mountain lowry's, king parrots, satin bower birds, brown doves, wattle birds etc etc
Thankfully the cockies choose to go elsewhere
I and all the other birds chased them away the couple of times they've come around
And they seem to go somewhere a bit easier to get food
Only seen the black cockies twice
Once in the bush near my place, just sitting there looking at me as I walked past
Couldn't believe how big they are
For a bird watcher like myself, where we live is gold. We get satin bower birds (bower behind the vegie patch and no more blue clothes pegs!), wattle birds, friar birds, wonga pigeons, bronze winged doves, New holland honey eaters, we have some origmas that have built their nest under the house, boo book owls, tawny frog mouths, tree creepers, king parrots, lorikeets, rosellas, cockies (boo), lyre birds, pardalotes, finches, the list is enormous.
As you said Bloot, one of the many benefits of living up here is the birdlife.