Pretty birds
At my local major intersection, there are trees on each of the corners and on the pedestian islands. These trees are the favorite roosting place of flocks of rainbow lorikeets.
(As is usual with birds, the more colourful one is the male)
There must seriously be thousands of them there at sunset, when the flocks all fly from tree to tree chattering their heads off. It's deafening.
(One of the less-busy but better-lit trees)
Anyone who's spent any time by the lakes at UQ or over at Dutton Park has certainly heard the sulphur-crested cockatoos, if not seen them. There are quite a few of them there. They're quite distinctive birds. Bright white, very large. And their screeches will get your attention if their plumage doesn't.
In Enid Blyton's Adventure Series there is a sulphur-crested cockatoo named Kiki, and she has been known to temporarily deafen baddies with her imitation of a train whistle in a tunnel. Until I first went to Dutton Park and heard the cockatoos there, I thought that was a literary exaggeration. It isn't. But they're funny birds, so it's okay.
(As is usual with birds, the more colourful one is the male)
There must seriously be thousands of them there at sunset, when the flocks all fly from tree to tree chattering their heads off. It's deafening.
(One of the less-busy but better-lit trees)
Anyone who's spent any time by the lakes at UQ or over at Dutton Park has certainly heard the sulphur-crested cockatoos, if not seen them. There are quite a few of them there. They're quite distinctive birds. Bright white, very large. And their screeches will get your attention if their plumage doesn't.
In Enid Blyton's Adventure Series there is a sulphur-crested cockatoo named Kiki, and she has been known to temporarily deafen baddies with her imitation of a train whistle in a tunnel. Until I first went to Dutton Park and heard the cockatoos there, I thought that was a literary exaggeration. It isn't. But they're funny birds, so it's okay.