Tag: birds

There’s nothing quite like pulling over at a picnic area, only to find yourself rapidly surrounded by a group of about a dozen brown-grey birds buzzing and squawking and whistling like a flock of drunk R2-D2’s.

Rather than a talk about a specific bird this week, I’d like to talk about a great way you can help our birds.

With their bright colours and garrulous personality Rainbow lorikeets are easily one of our most well known and best loved birds. At around thirty centimetres long these bright orange, green and blue parrots are well distributed throughout the local area.

Few people can see a Superb fairy-wren and not marvel at the brilliant colours of the male and how tiny and delicate the birds are. Flitting around quickly they can’t help but attract the eye, and out of all the Fairy-wrens in the local area the Superbs are easily the most widely spread and commonly seen.