How to be a great Australian bird!
Did you know that Australian birds are the loudest, funniest, brightest birds in the world?
Rules for Australian Birds:
- Be the noisiest bird that you can be: that might mean shrieking, or cawing, or howling. Every morning we are woken up by the birds, including the noisy miners, and the cockatoos but we think the Australian raven has the loudest call of all. Sometimes it sounds like a baby crying.
- Be the most colourful bird that you can be: the birds here are so brightly coloured! We’ve seen galahs with deep pink breasts; rosellas with deep red plumage; sulphur-crested cockatoos with bright yellow crests. But I think the best is the rainbow lorikeet, which flashes rainbow colours as it flies (and it’s pretty noisy too!)
- Be the silliest bird that you can be: have you heard birds telling each other jokes and having a laugh? Well, kookaburras sound just as though they are all laughing at a great joke, and win my vote for the funniest bird.
- But one of my favourite birds we’ve seen so far is the Superb Fairy Wren. It’s tiny and very quiet, with a beautiful cobalt-blue plumage. We saw one as we walked along the beach at Towradgi, but we couldn’t get a photo as it kept moving. The best things come in small packages!
If you want to see or hear some of these birds, have a look at this website: http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/birds/featured/Top-40-Bird-Songs
PS Birds are VERY difficult to photograph: they keep moving!
Nana Down Under 