Birds of a feather

[tgh]

Noisy miner family enjoying a drink...

 

[get me outta here]

Some people do not like the damage these aggressive native birds wreak. Locally, they gang up and attack every other bird and drive everything away.

Native or not, it's time to cull noisy miners - ABC listen

The noisy miner is an incredibly destructive species—but they're natives, protected by legislation. That doesn't matter, Sue Taylor argues. They should be culled.

www.abc.net.au

Noisy miner family enjoying a drink... View attachment 179485

 

[tgh]

There be Miners and Mynahs, we had a plague of common mynahs but they seem to have vanished.
The noisy lot have their uses, if a Python is about they will let me know.
Perhaps we should eliminate all successful species ( but exempt the most successful predator the planet has ever known )

 

[get me outta here]

The noisy miners around my house have driven away everything but the Currawongs, but the miners have a go at them too. They have taken over all the Eucalypts in the reserve opposite. If the noisy miners are “successful” at the expense of most of the other species, that is not an ecological success.

 

[drron]

Well our butcher birds keep the miners in check.They like a snack of young miners.
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[Cossie]

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Well our butcher birds keep the miners in check.They like a snack of young miners.
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I haven't seen that at our place, I'm not sorry to say. All the birds here seem to get on reasonably well, guess they know that at some stage they all will get something to eat.

 

[Spongbob]

drron said:
Well our butcher birds keep the miners in check.They like a snack of young miners.

These birds swoop and annoy our cat. One day he was in the back yard playing with his toys while been swooped by the birds.
Two hours later there was nothing but a very large scattering of bird feathers to be seen.

 

[drron]

Came across a twitter group for those in Canberra to follow-@BirdsinCanberra.
Some great photos.here's one.

 

[love_the_life]

Came across a twitter group for those in Canberra to follow-@BirdsinCanberra.
Some great photos.here's one.
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That's the little red rumped grass parrot - a very pretty bird.

 

[SuePa]

That's the little red rumped grass parrot - a very pretty bird.

He must be sitting on his little red rump!

 

[love_the_life]

He must be sitting on his little red rump!

You can't see it there but it is a flash of red on his back above the tail.

This is a rainbow bee eater - along the Cotter River near Canberra - another sweet bird (I'd best fess up - this is my daughter's photo not mine).

 

[SuePa]

You can't see it there but it is a flash of red on his back above the tail.

This is a rainbow bee eater - along the Cotter River near Canberra - another sweet bird

We have such beautiful birds in Australia!
Sometimes I forget not everywhere is so lucky.

 

[DC3]

You can't see it there but it is a flash of red on his back above the tail.

This is a rainbow bee eater - along the Cotter River near Canberra - another sweet bird

Is that just a name, because I hope that they don’t actually eat bees. .

 

[love_the_life]

Is that just a name, because I hope that they don’t actually eat bees. .

Err, yes they do.

From Rainbow Bee-eater | BirdLife Australia

Rainbow Bee-eaters eat insects, mainly catching bees and wasps, as well as dragonflies, beetles, butterflies and moths. They catch flying insects on the wing and carry them back to a perch to beat them against it before swallowing them. Bees and wasps are rubbed against the perch to remove the stings and venom glands.

 

[DC3]

... Rainbow Bee-eaters eat insects, mainly catching bees and wasps, as well as dragonflies, beetles, butterflies and moths. They catch flying insects on the wing and carry them back to a perch to beat them against it before swallowing them ...

The poor honey bee has enough problems, and now I find out that there are bee eaters around. Well, that’s nature at work, I guess.

 

[JessicaTam]

The poor honey bee has enough problems, and now I find out that there are bee eaters around. Well, that’s nature at work, I guess.

The honey bee is a European import that displaces the native bees, so I have no sympathy.

 

[Spongbob]

The honey bee is a European import that displaces the native bees, so I have no sympathy.

So should they buzz off?

 

[drron]

The Fiji parrotfinch.common on Denarau.
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[Buzzard]

In our backyard for a drink

 

[RooFlyer]

Non-alcoholic variety of kingfisher, Udaipur, India.