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Morning Melbourne! ⛅️

Caught! Red … Headed.

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Image of male King parrot on a terracotta pot about to make a meal of the flowering plants. These guys are well known for 5eir voracious eating on flowering plants and especially adore immature green tomatoes.
October 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM Everybody can reply
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BirdsByMe
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Morning Melbourne! ☔️ ☔️

Breakfast: earthworm with just a hint of HCOOH

Bitten off more than it could chew?

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Cropped image of a Laughing kookaburra playing with a recently captured earthworm in its beak. As a bonus, a large ant can be seen in its beak. Ants produce formic acid (an pungent acrid vinegar-like carboxylic acid) as a defense mechanism and this may be reason the Kookaburra looks like it has bitten off more than it can chew.
October 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM Everybody can reply
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Morning Melbourne! ⛅️

More signs summer is approaching.

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Image of female Yellow-tailed black cockatoo perched in an Acacia. She was with her life partner & 2 juvenile cockatoos. Every year about this time they ascend up into the hills to raise their young & feed on the plentiful pine seeds and tree grubs. It’s a sure sign summer is approaching.
October 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM Everybody can reply
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Satin bowerbird having a shower.

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Image of a sub-adult male Satin bowerbird. Young males, to the age of 7, are coloured like females with distinctively green/brown or otherwise entirely brown upper body and lighter under body with a distinct reticulated or scalloped pattern, but with very striking blue eyes. This guy’s eye is violet and his beak is lightly coloured showing advancing maturity.
October 2, 2025 at 11:14 PM Everybody can reply
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BirdsByMe
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Morning, Melbourne!

Little birb, big splash.

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Image of a Grey fantail making a splash after a quick birdbath dip. During winter, they migrate to parts warmer (who’d blame them) and only in the past week have they been seen in increasing numbers. I call them “𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑠𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑢𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑠” as during our summer one always sees them flitting about industriously!
September 13, 2025 at 1:29 AM Everybody can reply
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birdsbyme.bsky.social
BirdsByMe
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Morning Melbourne: audience with Royalty anyone?

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Attractive adult male King parrot grasping the still dormant branch of a Manchurian pear. The adult male has a red head, breast, and lower undersides, with a blue band on the back of the neck between the red above and green on the back, the wings are green and each has a pale green shoulder band, the tail is green, and the rump is blue. Good birbs even though they steal green tomatoes off the vine. Cheeky adult female King parrot. The plumage of the female is very different from the male having a green head and breast, a grey beak, and the pale shoulder band is small or absent.
September 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM Everybody can reply
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BirdsByMe
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Ep 04: To the sounds of "𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑦𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑖𝑛 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑛."

Some interesting observations on Bowerbird behaviour. More info in Alt-txt.

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September 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM Everybody can reply
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rotheche
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And the pic itself not cropped by the card preview, plus a bonus female spotted pardalote who came by yesterday as well...

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A small bird, mostly black with some white and bright yellow markings, drinking from a birdbath. A small, light brown-grey bird with darker wings and white spots on the wings perched on the rim of a birdbath.
January 15, 2025 at 12:05 AM Everybody can reply
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Another of my notoriously bad #photofail shite-phone-pics, yet I'm still glad I got a shot of my elusive Eastern Spinebill in my garden yesterday. Their flight is super-quick!
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Enlarged, terrible, phone-photo of an Eastern Spinebill (Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris) oriented to the right on a purple bromeliad flower-spike, amongst a backdrop of tangled greenery in my garden. South Coast NSW.
June 30, 2025 at 3:10 AM Everybody can reply
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Actual Gang-gang conversation “Just think, when the kids finally move on, we’ll have this and all the other trees on Mains St. to ourselves.”

“I can’t wait…”

Any day is a brilliant day with Gang-gang cockatoos in it.

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Breeding pair of Hang-gang cockatoos at the top of a Eucalyptus tree taking a break from their constant feeding. The image appears to show them engaging in conversation … well, that’s what I see it. Very very good birbs these.
August 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM Everybody can reply
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Dr Jacinta Humphrey
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Are you looking to attract native birds to your garden this spring? 🦜 🏡 Here's some top tips from @drkyliesoanes.bsky.social and yours truly!

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Birds and cities don’t always mix well. But small changes in our behaviour can make a difference
Spring is a great time of year for noticing neighbourhood birds. Here are some simple ideas for helping the birds in Australian back yards, cities and towns
www.theguardian.com
October 4, 2025 at 5:26 AM Everybody can reply
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Dean_dubb (gkars_spare_eye)
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Party time #birdsinbackyards
December 6, 2024 at 12:17 AM Everybody can reply
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I'm glad to be back home today after an unexpectedly extended visit to family for a couple of weeks. Happy to be back to my trees and feathered friends. 'Here, then, at home by no more storms distrest,..' - from 'Gaudy Night' by Dorothy L. Sayers.
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An adult male AustralianKing Parrot, with orange head and breast, deep emerald green wings, with bright, light green wing- flashes, sits on a large stick placed on an outdoor table in my garden on the NSW South Coast. He's about to eat a scatter of birdseed placed on the table. A regular avian visitor to my home.
January 8, 2025 at 12:33 PM Everybody can reply
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