Common Australian birds

[Warrigal]

This lineup of wild birds is what you get when you feed them regularly. If you don't feed them but make water available they will come separately to the garden whether you live in the bush or in the suburbs.

L to R - sulphur crested cockatoo, noisy miner, magpie, a pair of kookaburras and another magpie.



I have magpies living in a huge gumtree in front of my house and noisy miners live in the bottle brush trees at the back. Cockatoos roost near the nearby river and visit regularly. About twice a year I hear the kookas when they are calling each other. They are either marking out their territory or calling for a mate.

 

[Kaila]

Great post and picture! Thank you for sharing it with us!

 

[Warrigal]

Just to clarify, that is not my photo.

My sister in Queensland used to feed the Kookas at her front fence. Other birds joined the lineup but it soon turned into a squabble over food and position. In the end it was the noisy miner that won the day. She had a nest in a low tree and kookaburras are not above eating the chicks. Fiercely she defended her brood and beat up any kookaburra that came close.

Sis decided to cease feeding the wild birds.