#lesser sulphur crested cockatoo

[brushfeather]

Custom hat completed for the marvelously patient Jacob H. of a lesser sulphur crested cockatoo. First time doing an expressive hat. 😀

[haveyouseenthisbirdpoll]

List of Birds organized by Order + locations:

Accipitriformes:

Bearded vulture

California condor

Cooper's hawk

Osprey

Red-shouldered hawk

Steller's sea eagle

Anseriformes:

Bar-headed goose

Barnacle goose

Black swan

Common merganser

Red-breasted goose

Snow goose

Trumpeter swan

Apodiformes:

Common swift

Ruby-throated hummingbird

Bucerotiformes:

Eurasian hoopoe

Cariamiformes:

Red-legged seriema

Casuariiformes:

Emu

Southern cassowary

Cathartiformes:

Black vulture

Turkey vulture

Charadriiformes:

American oystercatcher

Atlantic puffin

Black-headed gull

Black skimmer

Black-tailed godwit

European herring gull

Killdeer

Northern lapwing

Ruddy turnstone

Western sandpiper

Ciconiiformes:

White stork

Columbiformes:

Common wood pigeon

Eurasian collared dove

Luzon bleeding-heart

Nicobar pigeon

Stock dove

Victoria crowned pigeon

Coraciiformes:

Blue-capped kingfisher

Common kingfisher

Cuculiformes:

Asian koel

Greater roadrunner

Yellow-billed cuckoo

Eurypygiformes:

Kagu

Falconiformes:

American kestrel

Common kestrel

Galliformes:

Palawan peacock-pheasant

Plain chachalaca

Scaled quail

Western capercaillie

Gaviiformes:

Common loon

Gruiformes:

American coot

Australasian swamphen/pūkeko

Blue crane

Common moorhen

Sandhill crane

Sora

Whooping crane

Passeriformes:

American bushtit

American robin

Australian raven

Baltimore oriole

Barn swallow

Black-billed magpie

Black-capped chickadee

Black-headed grosbeak

Black-throated sparrow

Blue-headed vireo

Blue jay

Bluethroat

Brown thrasher

California scrub jay

California towhee

Canada warbler

Canyon wren

Cave swallow

Cedar waxwing

Common blackbird

Common chlorospingus

Common raven

Eastern wood pewee

Eurasian blue tit

Eurasian bullfinch

Eurasian golden oriole

Eurasian jay

Eurasian magpie

European robin

Goldcrest

Great-tailed grackle

Great tit

Hooded crow

House sparrow

Indigo bunting

Kirtland's warbler

LeConte's sparrow

Long-tailed tit

Mexican jay

Painted bunting

Phainopepla

Pine siskin

Pin-tailed whydah

Pinyon jay

Pygmy nuthatch

Red winged blackbird

Rook

Saltmarsh sparrow

Satin bowerbird

Spotted towhee

Steller's jay

Tufted titmouse

Wallcreeper

Warbling vireo

Western tanager

White-breasted nuthatch

White-throated dipper

White-throated magpie-jay

Yellow-rumped warbler

Pelecaniformes:

Black-crowned night heron

Brown pelican

Great blue heron

Great egret

Great white pelican

Least bittern

Roseate spoonbill

Shoebill stork

Snowy egret

Phoenicopteriformes:

American flamingo

Chilean flamingo

Piciformes:

Acorn woodpecker

Clark's nutcracker

Great spotted woodpecker

Lesser spotted woodpecker

Lewis's woodpecker

Northern flicker

Pileated woodpecker

Red-bellied woodpecker

Red-headed woodpecker

Podargiformes:

Tawny frogmouth

Podicipediformes:

Pied-billed grebe

Procellariiformes:

Wilson's storm-petrel

Psittaciformes:

Australian king parrot

Chestnut-fronted macaw

Citron-crested cockatoo

Cockatiel

Galah

Gang-gang cockatoo

Pacific parrotlet

Red-masked parakeet

Rose-ringed parakeet

Sulphur-crested cockatoo

Strigiformes:

Barn owl

Barred owl

Eurasian eagle-owl

Suliformes:

Anhinga

Blue-footed booby

Double-crested cormorant

Trogoniformes:

Elegant trogon

Locations:

Africa

America

Antarctica

Asia

Australia

Eurasia

Europe

Oceania

[kamijoxversailles]

Meet Napoleon!

This is Napoleon Bonaparte. 

He is a lesser sulphur-crested cockatoo.  He is 18 months old.  And while I do OWN a cage for him, it will only be used if I need to take him to the vet or something - he can hardly wear a seatbelt in my car, so a cage is the safest option for him there. 

He is my new pet, and I love him already. 

Not sure if he loves me yet, but at least he knows me. I’ve been visiting the seller many many times, so the bird would have a chance to learn to know me before coming home with me.

Welcome to the family, Napoleon!

[rosalind2013]

I drew my sweet bird 🥰

[quiviraqui]

“I got it from him!! :)”

also a photobomb from choochoo the yellow-crested cockatoo (aka lesser-sulphur)

[todaysbird]

today's bird is sydney the lesser sulphur-crested cockatoo!

[pro-exotics]

This isn’t “new” as the post above is from 2011, but I was curious if there were any actual lifespan studies on pet or zoo parrots, and found this first.

Here is the link to the actual study: https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1469-1795.2011.00477.x#t2

From what I have learned from lifespan studies on toothed whales, I know talking about lifespan can be very, very difficult.

(Apologies in advance that this post got so long-winded.)

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For example, when looking up beluga whale “average lifespan”, you can find figures anywhere from 13 to 80 years, both claiming to be “average”. But what does that mean?

Rather, 13 years is what they found the lifespan of belugas to be counted from birth, including all calves that die (which is a very high number). 80 years being the estimated maximum, and then some perhaps less educated person put that as “average lifespan” on a website about whales.

I think the reason for this comes largely because we judge from those two species closest to us; humans and dogs. Human lifespan? Eh, 80 years. In many countries today, a girl has a life expectancy at birth of perhaps 83 years. That is also very close to a “maximum” lifespan (say 90 years), with the exception of some outliers that live far longer. When you’re 83-90 years old, you’re quite ripe, as a human. So “maximum” and “average” is very close, in humans.

As for dogs, 11 years is about average. It’s also old, with some living a bit longer, say the maximum is about 15 (again, with the exception of some remarkable individuals). So, average and maximum, pretty close.

As for beluga whales, the maximum may be about 60-65 (I frankly don’t know where they got “80″ from, as the oldest small whales and dolphins tend to die off in their early 60s, I don’t know of any confirmed older than 65), but the average adult dies in its 30s, and life expectancy at birth is ~13-15.

So the maximum is about twice the typical lifespan for an adult which is about twice the life expectancy at birth. You see how this is complicated? I talk about whales here because it’s what I know best.

To compare with humans, in a more “wild” setting (our ancestors), the maximum we have today of ~115 is twice what our ancestors would start dying at (55 would be quite old and a lot of them would be dead, but they could still sometimes live to 90), and our life expectancy at birth was closer to 25-30, due to high infant mortality. Three completely different figures, in the same way as the belugas.

So allow me to wonder when I read this study on parrot lifespan in zoos. First... and this is the same as with whales in zoos... the older animals will have been caught or born in a time when we didn’t know how to care for them very well (and this study goes back to animals born in the early 1800s). They may have spent their first several decades, or even their entire lives, with a poor diet, habitat or care.

Any animal born in the 1990s or 2000s, that is dead today... obviously didn’t get to live a long time, for whatever reason. Animals born in 2000 or 2010 that will live to the age of 50 or beyond, will not yet die and be included in a study like this for a long time, so they are not included. Again, complicated. (And which is why, when I calculate lifespans, I use strict rules for time of birth and death, and don’t mix those groups, like animals born in 1950 with those born in 1990.)

I know these people are professionals and I am not, but each study is different, and different methods may be used. I am just writing all this to explain how lifespan studies are complicated and may not always give a true picture.

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To the point then, I am confused regarding the cockatoos:

It says the oldest Moluccan cockatoo lived to an age of 92 years, but that the average lifespan for birds who survived to adulthood was a mere 9.5 years.

The oldest greater sulphur-crested lived to nearly 73 years, and the oldest lesser sulphur/yellow-crested lived to just under 40 years. Okay. And for both species, the average for those who survived to adulthood, was 8-10 years.

This doesn’t make any sense. Putting these three species together, all with the same average in the end, the maximum was ~68.49 years. That puts the average (not at birth, but for those who survived their first four years) at a mere 14.2% of the maximum lifespan.

I assume zoo parrots would be spared from many of the dangers pet birds are exposed to (open windows, pet cats and dogs, open water, flying into windows, being caught in doors, etc.), so this really makes me wonder at the causes of death.

I could try to make an unprofessional little study by looking around forums where people report their parrots deaths at various ages. Again, it would be very unprofessional and could not be directly compared (no two studies can ever truly be compared side by side, unless the exact same methods were used), but it would be interesting to see, because I just find this so unlikely.

Looking at the macaws, it’s interesting as their maximum ages were not as high as those of the cockatoos, but their average was better, in their 20s or near the 20s. The highest average (of the birds who survived to adulthood) with a reasonable sample size was of the red-tailed amazon, at 21.93 years, from a sample of 15 birds. (And makes me wonder even more why so many cockatoos died young?)

It does say the oldest Meyer’s parrot lived to be 31 (and the average was 9), but I know for a fact that Meyer’s parrots have lived to be over 40 (outliers, however). I guess I can be happy that my Meyer’s is now 18. While data on her species is very poor, I expect her to maybe live to her 30s.

My white-bellied caique got sick and died a few months before his fourth birthday. Looking at his species here, it says this:

34 birds total. The oldest lived to 23.14 years. Total average lifespan was 4.97 years, with 8 birds dying before the age of 4. The remaining 26, who survived to the age of 4 and beyond, died at an average of 5.79 years. However, the additional 3 birds alive when they published the study in 2008, averaged 20.28 years. Huh. (Three is a tiny sample size and you can’t compare living ages with the lifespan of the dead, but it’s funny that they averaged so close to the maximum.)

Anyway. I will be looking at more studies and surveys that might exist of captive parrot lifespans, because this is interesting, and while I doubt 9-10 years is actually a normal lifespan for large cockatoos, I’m certain “50-100 years or more” only belongs to outliers.

[kathleenseiber]

Clever cockatoos have learned to open kerb-side bins — and it has global significance

Move over, bin chickens: bin cockies are here, and scientists say they're confirming the cultural intelligence hypothesis.

John Martin, University of Sydney; Barbara Klump, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, and Lucy Aplin, University of Konstanz

In a small, isolated village in southern Sydney, the local sulphur-crested cockatoos are particularly clever. Once a week, when the neighbours roll their wheelie bins to the kerb, cockies fly over and, with skillful dexterity, open the lids in search of food.

It may seem as though cockatoos opening a kerb-side bin lid is a simple action. But our research, published today in Science, discovered this behaviour is far more significant than you may have first thought.

Sulphur-crested cockatoos are copycats. After one solves the lid-flip puzzle, other birds nearby imitate the new foraging behaviour in a stunning display of “social learning”.

For decades, scientists believed humans were the only animals capable of culture. Now, thanks to the community’s observations, we can add parrots to this small (but growing) list, which also includes chimpanzees, humpback whales and New Caledonian crows.

Clever, mischievous cockies

In Australia, sulphur-crested cockatoos (Cacatua galerita) are often thought of as being in your face, full of attitude and mischief. But if we take the time to observe them, we can see they’re also intelligent, curious and adaptable.

You might have seen a variety of their social interactions, such as play. Have you watched cockies hanging on powerlines like a trapeze artist?

Cockatoos are also highly dexterous, holding food with their foot and manipulating it with their beak and tongue. This includes skillfully eating the seeds from a gardener’s mortal enemy — the bindii weed — and lessor foes, such as onion grass.

Cockatoos love to play, and swing on powerlines like trapeze artists. Shutterstock

But bin opening is a new foraging behaviour that hadn’t been observed until recently. Thankfully, one member of our research team lives in the local area, and saw cockatoos opening bins firsthand in 2014.

This kicked off our bin-opening survey in 2018, where we asked community members to report if they “have” and, importantly, “have not” observed bin opening across the greater Sydney region and beyond.

Thanks to these reports and our own observations, we soon discovered this behaviour spread to neighbouring suburbs over the following years.

We also found that between suburbs, where the birds’ social networks were separated, there were subtle differences in bin-opening styles, and these became increasingly different between suburbs further apart.

Only around 10% of birds in each flock learned how to open bins. The rest benefit from the behaviours of these pioneers. Interestingly, we found adult males were most likely to know how to open bins. Adult females and juveniles also displayed this behaviour, but to a lesser extent.

Cockatoos use their feet and beak to lift open the the wheelie bin lid. Barbara Klump, Author provided

What’s all the fuss about, anyway?

To many of us familiar with the cleverness of cockatoos, it might come as no surprise they can learn by watching each other. So in case you aren’t as fascinated as we are by this discovery, here are a couple of reasons to get excited.

First, it shows we can all make interesting scientific observations in our everyday lives — even in the suburbs where we live.

Second, only 70 odd years ago, humans started questioning the idea only human society was culturally complex. Humans are masters of social learning. From an early age, we copy skills from other children and adults.

But this study helps reaffirm that a range of other animals are also culturally complex.

There are three main traits associated with so-called “cultural animals”: larger brain size, living in social groups, and being long lived. This is known to scientists as the “cultural intelligence hypothesis”.

And when lands change, for example, for urban growth or agriculture, it stimulates the emergence and spread of adaptive behaviours. This creates new opportunities for cultures to develop.

Chimpanzees and other primates are among the few animal groups known to be capable of social learning. Now, we can add parrots to this list. Shutterstock

Cities and urban areas provide fertile grounds for this, as animals that live there often have to change their behaviours to exploit different foods and shelter options, and to survive new threats — think cats, rats, and cars.

It’s likely most of us have observed animals adapting to new environments. A classic example from Sydney is the bin-chicken — aka Australian white ibis. These birds also forage in bins (but not opening the lids) and now nest in urban palm trees rather than their traditional flooded wetland reed beds.

Another fascinating example is grey-headed flying-foxes. Despite being vulnerable to extinction due to population decline and habitat loss, these bats have become more common in urban areas over recent decades. This has required adaptation to lights, noise, humans, and the different flowers and fruits we grow in our gardens, parks and streets.

Adaptive behaviours like these are assumed to be the result of genetic change, or innovations. The challenge is to confirm if these innovations spread via social learning through the population, resulting in new, adaptive cultures emerging.

You may find bin chickens annoying, but they are incredibly resilient, adaptive birds. Shutterstock

How you can make a difference

Cities are also full of people who can share observations of innovative behaviours, and we encourage you to get involved in citizen science.

A major benefit of community participation in science is increased geographic coverage in a short amount of time. Individual scientists can only survey a small number of sites, but by involving the community, we can cover large parts of a suburb, city, or a country at the same time.

There are dedicated citizen science projects you can participate in, such as our Big City Birds research. We use this app to learn about nesting, foraging, nocturnal roosts, and adaptive behaviours of birds across Australia (and not just in the big cities).

Other recommended projects include eBird, iNaturalist, DigiVol, FrogID, and Urban Field Naturalist. It even helps to share any interesting observations through social media, an indirect way to inform scientific research. To help us, you can tag @Big_City_Birds or use this hashtag: #BigCityBirds.

With a range of similar studies underway, it’s likely scientists will discover more evidence of culturally complex behaviours in other species, continuing to challenge our idea of what it means to be human.

John Martin, Adjunct lecturer, University of Sydney; Barbara Klump, Researcher, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, and Lucy Aplin, Research Group Leader, University of Konstanz

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

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[wordsonbirds]

[Image: A lesser sulphur crested cockcatoo looking slightly away from the camera with their entire body fluffy up sweetly.] This little one just wanted some love. As a cockatoo do.

[avacado-and-louie]

Tumblr pet bird census 2017 - results;

Thankyou all for participating in this. All together there are 1,203 birds in the count.

Below, they are seperated into species and sub-species in descending order.

348 Budgies

224 Cockatiels 

216 Chickens

- 18 Rhode Island reds - 6 Silky - 2 Black Sumatra - 4 American Bantams - 3 Belgian Bearded D'Uccle Bantams - 1 Buckeye - 2 Buff Orphingtons - 1 Brahma - 2 Marans - 1 Isa Brown - 1 Sussex - 6 Isa Brown/Sussex mix - 1 Golden Laced Wyndotte - 165 Other

99 Conures - 69 Green Cheeked   - 10 Sun  - 3 Blue Crowned  - 1 Lilac Crowned  - 6 Nanday - 3 Jenday - 1 Red Throated - 3 Yellow Sided - 1 Nanday/Sun Hybrid - 1 Peach-Fronted

41 Finch - 11 Society, - 24 Zebra, - 2 Green Singer, - 1 Gouldian, - 4 Other

40 Lovebirds - 18 Peachface - 1 Black Masked - 8 Fischer - 13 Other

38 dove - 17 Diamond - 13 Ringneck - 7 Other 

26 Indian Ringnecks      

24 African Greys  - 16 Congo - 4 Timneh - 4 Other

21 Quail - 20 Button  - 1 Chinese Dwarf 18 parrotlet 11 Quaker

11 Canaries 10 Amazon - 1 Orange winged - 1 Red Crowned - 1 White Fronted - 1 Red Lored - 4 Blue Fronted - 1 Yellow Naped - 1 Other

8 Pigeons - 2 Fancy  - 2 Mixed breed - 1 Rock  - 1 Classic Old Frill - 3 Other 

8 Cockatoos - 1 Sulphur Crested - 1 Lesser Sulphur Crested - 1 Blue Eyed - 2 Goffins - 2 Umbrella - 1 Moluccan - 1 Other  6 Sengal 6 Macaw - 2 Hahns - 2 Severe - 2 Blue & Gold - 1 Other 5 Ducks - 1 Muscovy - 4 Other

5 Meyers Parrot 4 Canary-wing Parakeet 4 Caique - 1 Black Beaded - 1 White Bellied - 2 Other 

4 Bourke Parrots

3 Guinea Fowl

3 Rainbow Lorikeet 3 Eclectus

3 Kakariki

4 Poinus - 2 Blue Headed - 1 Bronze winged  - 1 White Capped Maxamillion Poinus mix

2 Jardine Parrots 

2 Moustache Parakeet 

2 Lineolated parakeets

1 Indian Ringneck/Moustache Parrrot Hybrid 1 Red-bellied parrot 1 Pheasant 1 port Lincoln parrot *Disclaimer* Some reblogs and tags were deemed invalid as there wasn’t enough information including breeds or types of birds for me to add your information to the count.

[brushfeather]

Hat commission sketch that was just approved by a customer.

I'm nearly always open for custom hats! Best place to message me if you're curious is Etsy, but here is good, too.

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DAY 01    LABUAN BAJO - RINCA ISLAND – PADAR [-/L/D]

Our officer will meet and greet you at Labuan Bajo Airport than transfer to the pier to set sail for Rinca Island.  The journey time is approx. two hours and you will be served lunch on board.  Exploring Rinca Island with your own personal local ranger who will lead you through this nature reserve to look for the famous Komodo dragons and also encounter other wild animals (eg. wild buffalo, long-tailed macaque and wild boar) and birds along the way. Afterward sailing to Kadar for sunset & overnight.

Dine and sleep on board

DAY 02    PADAR - KOMODO ISLAND – PINK BEACH –KANAWA ISLAND - LABUAN BAJO -[B/L/-]

Breakfast on board

Early morning sail from Padar to Komodo Island.   A local ranger will lead you through this nature reserve pointing out the various wild animals and birds (eg. lesser-sulphur-crested cockatoos, collared kingfisher) that can be found here.  Afterward back on the boat to proceed to Pink Beach for a cool-down swim and snorkel the un-spoilt coral reefs, then sail to Labuan Bajo with a stop for the last snorkeling in Kanawa Island

Lunch will be served on board and sail back to Labuan Bajo where you will be picked up and taken to your hotel.

Accommodation at Komodo Boutique Hotel/L Bajo Hotel (Standard room). Dinner will be on your own cost

DAY 03    LABUAN BAJO – CITY TOUR - AIRPORT [B/-/-]

Breakfast at the hotel

If time permits – morning excursion to Batu Cermin Cave before transfer to the airport for your afternoon flight to Bali.

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Cacatua sulphurea -Plyctolophus sulphureus Lesser Sulphur-crested Cockatoo -by Edward Lear 1812-1888 - high resolution image from old book.

[pro-exotics]

My Birdie Wishlist - no one is going to read all of this

Just for fun, here is my wishlist of birds parrots.

I made a collage last spring of all the exotic pets I wanted (most of which are gone now, as I realize with my limited time and resources, as well as living in Norway, I will have to stick to my favorites, namely parrots and reptiles), which had sixteen parrots on it, changing species on and off as I learned more and understood my wishes and abilities more. (I do not want any more Poicephalus and they are not suitable with other parrots, I can never afford a €25k Palm cockatoo, I like some species but they have to be down-prioritized for various reasons, etc...)

I thought hell, lots of breeders and enthusiasts keep dozens of parrots in aviaries, sixteen is not that much? But I realized recently as I thought planned dreamed a little more, that I want to have a relationship with each bird, so I will have to keep my wishlist to under ten birds. (Also, I already have two, though they are middle-aged, they have probably 10-20 and 20-40 years left, respectively.)

So these nine ^ are what came out finally. Miligold (military x B&G macaw), Citron-crested cockatoo, Dusky pionus, Camelot macaw (75% Scarlet, 25% B&G), Hawk-headed parrot, Moluccan cockatoo, Bronze-winged pionus, Lesser sulphur-crested cockatoo, and Golden conure.

I also have a soft spot for the Alexandrine, especially the new lutino mutation (which is actually a hybrid with the Indian ringneck). It sounds shallow but I love yellow birds and I will pick the one that has a better suited temperament, also the Golden conure is endangered so I don’t know if it should be considered unethical to keep them as pure pets. (And €2000 is a pricey little conure. Hardly any of the other birds cost that much.)

Also I may want a white-bellied caique again instead, as my Pumpkin sadly got a wasting disease and died, and he was an amazing little puppy. :(

Cockatoos have an unfair reputation, in my opinion. Yes they are special and yes they are high-maintenance, but I find a lot of parrot people just can’t stand cockatoos, or fear them. (I on the other hand, am that way with Poicephalus and Amazons. XD They scare me.) I love the flashiness and sugar-high toddler personality of the cockatoos. With these three (or just the first two, we will see), I will only get females as young birds, and raise them with the flock. Males are far more unpredictable, and some turn out as killers of other birds. (Also I love the red-tailed blacks... and there is a breeder in Norway that sells them for about €3k. But it is a very special bird that would need careful planning. My favorite is the yellow-tailed, but they cost some €25k per bird.)

Hawk-heads also seem to have a strange reputation online, that got spread like “I heard someone said that someone read that they can be really mean”, while when you read from first-hand experience, they seem like any normal South American parrot (their closest relative is the caique).

I have owned sulphur-crested cockatoos and a scarlet macaw before, but that was when I was 15-21 years old and living in an apartment. A completely different life situation, and even a different person who owned them. I am now nearly 30 and won’t be able to build this flock up for quite a few years yet. Maybe I will have the two Pionus in 2-3 years.

I will be making an entire building for these, by the way. I love cockatoos, but not indoors 24/7. XD Especially as they’re the only parrots that regularly scream in the dark. Because they don’t want to go to bed. (And 100 other reasons. Many animals are lovely to interact with, but very difficult to keep inside the home.)

I have heard a bit of iffy things about pulmonary problems in macaws from being kept with toos and greys, especially the B&Gs (theorized to be due to their bare nostrils), and both of these are B&G hybrids. Some terrible stories, some have kept them together for decades with no problem (rescues/sanctuaries especially).

I will probably keep the macaws separate in their own smaller indoor aviary, in another room, but let them share space with the other birds outdoors, and go out to the main area for enrichment, but keep it very clean and dust-free, and the macaws would be in their own air-space for 18+ hours per day.

I have made a lot of videos, articles and lengthy annoying forum posts against hybrids and the pet parrot trade in general between 2008-2014, but I have changed in my beliefs a lot since then. So in case you stumble upon my videos... know that I don’t stand by them anymore, but I am leaving them up.

[stelleralcid-blog]

australia bird list so far:

Australian White Ibis

Masked Lapwing

Silver Gull

Rainbow Lorikeet

Rock Dove (pigeon <333)

House Sparrow

Australian Magpie (haven’t been swooped yet)

Magpie-Lark

Indian Myna

Crested Pigeon

Australian Brush-Turkey

Noisy Miner

Pied Butcherbird

Australian Pelican

Laughing Kookaburra

Lesser Crested Tern

Black Naped Tern

White Tern

Pied Cormorant

Little Cormorant

Australian Raven

Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo

Dusky Moorhen

Pale Vented Bush-Hen

Royal Spoonbill

Black Swan

Australian Wood Duck

Pacific Black Duck

Great Bowerbird

Magpie Goose