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Those birds are Cockatoos, bin chickens are Ibis
It looked like that puffer fish had a cheeky smile on its face. Clearly those ducks have nothing better to do. Omgoodness we Aussies are a tad weird, but very inventive.
Never heard anyone use the term 'trash birds' for Cockies (Cockatoos), or anything else. Aussies don't tend to say trash/trash can, we say rubbish/rubbish bin or just bin. The term bin chicken/bin chook is definitely a thing, but is about Ibises and not Cockies.
The Alice Spring regatta on the Todd River is insured for costs if cancelled by the river being in flood.
Crows can open bins too. I saw them opening a commercial bin across the road from my place. It had a plastic lid and the crows teamed up to open it.
In the Territory Ian, I have seen kangaroos in herds of thousands. You won't see them in these numbers along the coast.
Gidday mate! Just a comment that a "bin Chicken" is generally an Ibis. Lots in Brissy!! Keep up the fun!! Cheers Ian
The abandoned asbestos town is Wittenoom in Western Australia. Midnight oil an Aussie band had a song called Blue Sky Mine about the asbestos mine connected to it.
What a thoughtful person you are! The idea of donating money towards flood damage and the people who have lost everything, is such a kind gesture and one, I'm sure, that will be greatly appreciated.
(When I was first married we lived on the banks of the Queanbeyan River during a flood season; and were rescued, in a rowboat, from our 4th floor flat!!)
On the morning glory cloud , I worked in the Gulf of Carpentaria on prawn trawlers and on one morning after a night's fishing we were on anchor in calm weather , early morning beautiful blue skies , saw the morning glory cloud approaching and it was as far as the eye could see to left and right , at near approach the wind picked up and the temperature dropped , as this huge rolling snake of cloud went overhead it became quite chilly , this is in the tropics , as it went past the sea became somewhat rough , from calm at approach to blowing 20 - 25 knots after it passed which is about the speed the cloud was travelling . Stayed blowy all day and that night .
These are a low altitude phenomenon , it's an experience to watch one approach and pass directly overhead , quite a unique experience .
Love your channel. I heard you say Bin Chicken at the beginning of the Cockatoo bin invasion, they are not actually referred to bin chickens but the Australian white ibis is what we refer to as the Bin chicken because you will find them rummaging through the rubbish. I'm a Queenslander & we have a lot of them :)
On the point of the kangaroos... that's a little mob... wait till you see a mob of a couple hundred of them!
A band called Midnight oil Has a song on the town Abandoned due to Asbestos
Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mine
Re the morning glory clouds, I was very fortunate to see and stand I two of these when we lived on Mornington Island. Like standing in a wet cotton ball that moved.
Those sulphur crested cockatoos are cheeky bastards I've got a flock of about 200 rest in a giant gum tree in my backyard they almost demolished the wooden parts of my garage with their beaks but their favourite thing is to pick oranges and mandarins off my neighbours fruit trees and carry them to my tree and proceed to peel them , not only do I have a sea of half eaten fruit all over my lawn but the buggers like to screech at the top of their lungs , it mostly only happens in spring but it gets old real quick. Fun fact last time I was on holidays to the USA I saw a sulphur crested cockatoo for sale in a pet shop in San Francisco with a price tag of $5,000 and when I inquired about it was told that it was on special because it was destroying the shop .
No.11 the Boab tree.
I have a photo of me in that tree in 1953...and again in 2014...😂
The #1 entry, Cockatoos and Galahs are what we would call 'Shit-Stirrers'. Getting into bins opens up a valuable resource, but they will also do some crazy things simply for fun. we dont have sulphur crested cockatoos where Im from, but we do have Pink and Grey Galahs. masters of mischief.
In the town I grew up in, we were right on the fringe of TV reception from Perth. there were 2 local TV stations, but if you wanted the extra 3 City channels, you needed a BIIIG antenna, and were pretty common. im talkin 40-80ft masts, and Quad Stack Yagi's (these were about as tall as a person, thats just the antenna on top of the mast). there suddenly was a spate of peoples antennas going bad. in 6 months, everyone's TV signal went bad. turns out the galahs were chewing on the antenna cables. the supposed reason, there was a kinda high voltage sent up the coax to power a masthead amplifier. the birds were chewing into them for the tingle. like putting your tounge on a 9v battery. laugh if you want, but thats just how these birds be, as other stories will tell. one figures out something fun, n shows his mates. was a cracking trade in putting PVC ducting over the cable, where it was previously just tied to the mast.
Another one is doing loops on power lines. not uncommon to see them hanging upside down on trees to get at the flowers. one bugger found that you could swing on the power lines and do full loops. full 360's, 720's. like a gymnast on parallel bars.
Ive not seen this one personally, but from my Dad when he was working in Newman in the 80's. Desert, Iron ore mining town. was a closed town, run by the mining company, so had some excellent facility's. a fully green irrigated footy oval in the desert. brought in HEAPs of birds. they learnt it was a great game to goto the top of a 3m high berm that served as a pavilion (of course there was a well provisioned club house). Lie down sideways, tuck the wings in, and rolly-polly down the hill. then, super dizzy, try and climb to the top and do it again. Dizzy AF, walkin into each other, getting halfway up and falling over (rolly polly down again, why not)
This one isnt in the past, only saw it 6 months ago. Armadale train station, big antenna tower, maybe 500ft? open lattice design, so an A shape with strong posts in the corners, and steep diagonal bracing. they were sliding down the bracing much like a skateboarder doing a grind. and whilst i couldnt figure out the rules, it was totally a game, trying to knock the other Galahs off. not such a big deal if you can fly, cos then you just go to the top again and have another go. would have been a few hundred birds, all screeching and carrying on, having a great ol time. just surfing the antenna tower.
Yeah, maybe its something in the water... but doing silly things simply for a laugh... that happens everywhere. but when the Birds are in on the game, n are making up their own games. N Galahs make great pets, but you simply MUST keep them stimulated. they are great fun. will play fetch like a dog, and are very communicative (if you learn their body language). if you ever meet a frindly one, remember their tounge is really their only touch organ. so they will probably *softly* bite to touch you with the tounge. they can be very delicate. like you let a dog sniff your hand, if you let them, they know you arnt a threat. and then you can scritch them. they LOOOVE a scrich.
I wouldnt say its a **very** offensive thing to say, but calling someone a 'Galah'... your being quite silly... but... carry on, its rather amusing. "Ya Bloody Galah **snorting with laughter**"
They mentioned the Alice Springs dry boat race, but not the Moomba Birdman competition?! Outrageous! You need to check out the Moomba "birdman rally" held annually in Melbourne Australia. and Moomba Festival generally, the name has a funny meaning in English.
Or just check out the Round the Twist episode.
Yea we had a birdman in SA at Glenelg long time ago lol
also there was a tin can rally on maribyrnong river .. good memories
I would like to point out the Birdman rally was stolen from Adelaide like a lot of your events that you have in Melbourne
@@bootn13 I'm surprised they didn't steal the milk carton Regatta as well
A Cockatoo is a pest but is not the bin chicken. The ibis is the bin chicken.
With the glare from the “ball lightning, remember a cars wind shield is concave, so the light refraction is probably from another car reversing, then driving off
Hey Ian, the white cockies arnt Bin Chickens - that's the dirty rotten Ibis.The white cockies are very naughty and have even destroyed my mum's wooden kitchen window surrounds all because she wouldn't feed them. They are very clever but destructive.
be careful if you dontate to charities in Australia there's a few that have been caught basiclly lying about the money they get donated
A group of kangaroos is called a "mob" of roos. The same as a tribal group of people is referred to as a "mob". Kangaroo is male Lore and Emu is Female Lore.
I learn more iwrocker about my own country.
3:40 Alot of the times Kangaroos travel in groups
You know why Aussies like you Ian? Because you’d be a good mate!
I had a beer at the Witenoom pub in 1988.
Saw 3 guys sitting in chairs on the side of the road with a beer with a sign just ahead saying splash us. It was few weeks ago with the rain we had and they were in the rain just I front of a big puddle. Some cars veered into the puddle splashing them completely and they were loving it.😂 us crazy Aussies when it floods.😜
Sounds like a vid I saw.
That’s shami he’s a CZcamsr
@@jeffreyflynn2805 Shammi
Ha ha..I saw that one too😂😂
Yes and very unsanitary 🤮
corellas which are another of our native parrots are very very destructive (a local council spent a week installing strings of "fairy lights" for a festival and a mob of80+ corellas pulled them all apart in a few hours), more so than the sulfur crested cockatoos in the video, the sulfur cockatoos can be quite big and sometimes turn up in huge mobs or flocks, they can chew through forearm thick branches to get to grubs in trees and easily destroy wooden window frames and other wooden parts of houses..I've even seen a couple ripping up anti bird spikes glued to window sills so they could nest!!
the painted boab nuts you got a fewdays ago come from a tree like the prison tree
I love that the Royal Australian Navy participates in the Regatta. :)
How can no one mention the puffer fish always looks like its smiling?! Its their best feature 😁
The light refraction is seen in the lens of the camera via the viewfinder, not in the sky.. the headlight didnt project onto the clouds.. (Im a video and sound guy).
Also, buy 2 cheap lamps (with low powered globes) and put them on the floor behind you, one on each side, it will improve your rear key lighting for doing your super.
Grew up in a country town. Used to get kangaroos on the golf course quite a bit in summer. It was an easy source of grass for them to eat.
No sharks in the footy field, ,,, usually.
I like how the guys says the lightning storm in Broome is Perth, Perth is about a days drive from Broome
Cockatoos are not called bin chickens. That's an Ibis.
Bloat in "Finding Nemo" is a puffer fish! 😁 The big guy in the tank. "Bin chickens" are seagulls. 😊 Ibis do it too. :/
bin chickens ARE ibis ... seagulls are scavengers
@@lynfletcher7744 We always used to call the seagulls at St Kilda beach bin chickens too.
Those are sulphur crested cockatoos. The Bin Chicken is the Ibis not the Cockatoos
Sulfur Crested Cockatoo is not only annoying in behaviour, but also they screech loudly for hours at a time.
I'm in the Hawkesbury NSW. 5 minutes from the Hawkesbury River at Windsor. Massive floodplain just down the other end of the street. We are on a hill so luckily.
Two great charities that have supported our area over the last 3 major floods (3 in 3 years). Hawkesbury helping hands and Turbans for Australia. Both doing phenomenal work for everyone affected. Any monies donated they would use directly
And it's flooding again
why would we need turbans after a flood? mopping up mud,wiping your ass,door mat for muddy feet. never heard of these clowns
Yeah the Ibis are known as bin chickens, the Cockatoos are just very naughty and I remember having breakfast on Hamilton Island where one was swooping down and stealing food with us sitting at the table.
errr.. what's more far fetched... that its some lens flare on a very wet night, or that its somehow 'unknown'/UFO
That Boab looks like a heart.
They usually have fat trunks, but not that shape, they store water inside.
Check out the “ Stop Revive Survive “ rest stop if you’re here during the holidays I heard that the Canadian hitch hiker were going “ to take the idea, back home to Canada 🇨🇦 .
I live in Ipswich council area. The shopping centre up the road is built over an old underground mine. A lot of the areas houses have had trouble with houses subsiding and cracking up, not far from where I live
Please donate to Animal Rescue 🙏. When interviewed, most rural pple didn't care about their houses or belongings but the lives and well-being of their farm and domestic animals. The ARC are doing amazing work in helping to feed animals and house cats and dogs that were caught in the floods, let alone the natives, like the kangaroos and reptiles.
As well as the SES
I first saw the boab prison tree in the 1970's and have been in it. Next time I saw it in 2002 it is like you see it there. fenced off and new signage of it's story. The magnetic termite mounds are quite a sight to see, and some of them are very large, like over 10 feet tall and @ 8 feet wide on the wide side. I have also visited the asbestos town which was called Wittenoom, it was after the mining stopped but while a few folks still lived there and there was even a small general store. A nice gorge called Wittenoom Gorge is nearby and was a major tourist attraction at one time. Here in WA we call the puffer fish "blowies" and if they are around you will catch nothing else but them. Needless to say, they are killed and not returned to the water, similar to how we dealt with carp in Wisconsin. They are so noxious even the seagulls will not touch them and those rats of the sky eat anything.
We had a really dry period, a few years back; and driving through the rural countryside, we say large mobs of kangaroos and emus searching for water. It is a sight to be seen.
Terry Pratchett must have got the idea for the boat race in his novel The Last Continent from the boat race in Alice Springs.
The boab tree was a prison tree and drop bears were the prison guards
haha
Boab trees are in the outback, a fairly common sight to tourists.
Great video, I liked Skull Rock, never knew it existed and I live in Australia.
"...was once a sacred burial ground to Australian Aboriginals" Ahem. Still is.
Hoping I get through to you, and quickly.... I know you are pretty interested in afl atm, so I wanted to let you know that Buddy Franklin from the Sydney Swans (whom you just ranked best jersey for the footy team) just kicked his 1000th goal and it was fantastic. I'm an Essendon member but love my afl. It was done years ago and will probably never be seen again, so I hope you take a moment and watch the whole crowd swarm the ground, what a sight to see. Brilliant. Have to get back to the game, but enjoy it. I was thinking of you and your new found fascination in afl. Take care, Danielle from Melbourne Australia.
Lol. Ian, lense flares are extremely common to the point that some hollywood directors are know for it. That thing was the most obvious lense flare I've ever seen.
J.J Abrams
My relatives had a cockatoo that would undo tyre caps and let your tyres down
That Ghost town is a place called Wittenoom, in the Pilbarra region. It's the main inspirations behinds Midnight Oil's hot song 'Blue Sky Mine'
The puffer fish is in Asia too..
They make a beautiful art work in the sand for their mate.. look it up
Good man mate genuine Aussie attitude you have
At 6:33, it's two different species of puffer fish. The one being held is a toad fish. Poisonous but not as spiky.
For that swimmer in Queensland, it is also good to not forget about the Croc's and Bull Shark's that swim inland during the floods. When waters recede people sometimes find either of them in their swimming pools.
No crocs this far south
@@MON-ud7sw that's good to hear
Like the Bull Sharks that ended up in a golf course pond in Brissie.
@2:50 looks like a large rusty ship wreck
A group of Kangaroos is called a 'Mob'
The Asbestos town is immortalised in the Midnight Oil song 'Blue Sky Mine' (czcams.com/video/Ofrqm6-LCqs/video.html)
Dude the current situation with the floods are horrible. Especially in Lismore. The government is not offering the help they need. The quarantine camps they built here are sitting empty when the nearby ones could be used to house victims of the floods. I've heard rumours from the locals that the death numbers are being squashed in the media too. Those poor people need way more help.
They are getting plenty of help, you can’t help everyone that’s just impossible mate, Australia has had almost 3 years of disasters our resources are stretched pretty thin right now so you tell me what more can they do beside what they are now, like actually what do you want? The govt to ask the water to go away? They are giving money, giving food, clothes, necessities, they can’t do much else till the rain stops and the clean up is done so we can rebuild.
was trying to find a way to send him a message about lismore, they need help!
@@knack2baby888 Maybe if they would stop harassing the military then they’d want to help, how bout you watch the video of the armies rescue crews who just got done doing over 100 rescues so they sat down had some lunch and got screamed at and told how lazy they are for not doing their job, when this shit isn’t the militaries job, stop feeding the entitlement it’s starting to have a disgusting effect.
Hahaha Ian your becoming truly Aussie, that reaction to the "qld Provence" hahah
Cockatoo is definitely not a bin chicken
a group of kangaroos is called a 'mob.' Like deer, they are herd animals, and tend to hang out in family groups.
Ian, I lived in a ghost town out in the outback. Now Big Reds are Roos that are 2-3times bigger, at night 1959 I believe, we where sitting out in the cool night air hearing boom boom boom and out of the dark a huge group of Big Reds came. Maybe 50 or more bounding past the house.
Ian, that town closed off due to its asbestos problem was actually a natural accuracy. The hill range surrounding the town contained extremely high levels of natural pure asbestos.
Is that Wittenoom?
The floods are back, Lismore went under again. Again, we were siphoning the backyard on the side of a mountain.
Checkout videos of Grafton nsw, known as the jacaranda city. Everything goes purple, the trees, business owners decorate their shops purple, food businesses create purple food to sell. Because of all the jacaranda trees that line the streets, and the town has a festival for it each year.
Don't forget Grafton's annual held October each year. Many of them have also been planted in the northern suburbs of Sydney, obtain a moderately elevated position when they're flowering and you'll see dozens.
There's lots of cockys that are around here as it's farming area. Of course they come here as I have a pet cockatoo that attracts them as well. As I feed to local birds, the cockys have twigged that it's free food and there's more cockys than rosellas, bronzewing doves, galas and King Parrots.
G'day Ian, that was very informative about things strange to Australia, l hope your able to come to OZ soon you and the family would fit in like a glove, keep smiling and love to the family, cheers mate, Neil 🤠.
Cockatoos have the mental ability of a two year old child. Two year old children are difficult lol. Love your vids mate.
According to an Aboriginal legend that I've heard, the boabab tree was the most beautiful tree created. But it (she?) became vain, and ridiculed the other trees, constantly showing off it's beauty. After a while, the creator got angry with this, so he pulled it up, and stuck it back in the ground, branches first. Tribes in Africa have the same legend.
Glider pilots use the morning glory to try and make a flight of over 1,000km, for their Diamond C certificate.
You guys have Pufferfish they just are not toxic and don't have spikes. Ofcourse we get the more deadly version.
that shape is typical of refracted light on a wet lens and as you see it was raining
G'day Ian, cockies are really destructive, there's videos of them destroying cars breaking aerials and ripping rubber window seals out and bloody noisy buggers too
I lived a few streets away from that sinkhole when it happened, it was really sad for the old bloke because he’d lost everything a few years prior in the 2011 floods. It was cool to look at tho as a local just wandering past. Worst part of Ipswich being built on old mines is the roads are terrible here, crazy pot holes open up overnight after rain and I’ve blown 2 tyres in 2 years because of this.
Hi Ian, there is a vid on here somewhere of a giant Boab tree, which was relocated from Northern WA down to the Botanical Gardens in Perth. I believe it was in the way of some outback development which was happening. It was a mammoth task. Imagine the weight of the tree and the logistical feet in moving it. Then once in the ground, they had to nurse it back to perfect health. It worked, and tourists now gaze at it in wonder. When I was a kid we caught puffer fish by the dozens in the Noosa river, in South East Queensland and yes they would blow themselves up. We would just move them back into the water with a stick. The cloud formation was special, but there is also a vid on here of a huge dust cloud which blew across the inland of Australia some years back. One family who were travelling in their car, did not know whether to enter it or not. I would say pull well off the road, make sure your windows were up and sit it out, as there was no way you could see any approaching vehicles in the middle of it. Floods, I saw a scientist say the other day that Australia is the one place you don't want to be with climate change becoming more invasive every year. Floods again, I am in South East Queensland, we had major flooding in a large area, many lives were lost, but poor Lismore in Northern NSW, they were absolutely devastated. All those brave citizens in boats, who saved lives - well done. My thoughts go out to all who were effected
I watched the transport of that tree and visit it every time I go to Perth..😲amazing
Ipswich is a town about an hour from Brisbane.
I have never seen a puffer fish on the beach and I have been to every state on the mainland.
I have seen the Boab tree in the video, it is in Western Australia near Derby, and was used as a prison tree for Aboriginal slaves and prisoners. I have seen photos and the trees are scattered across the top of Weatern Australia where they were used as prison trees when transporting Aboriginal people to cities.
There is also an Alice Springs surf life saving club.
You should check out the Dunny Derby. The Asbestos town was called Wittenoom.
there was a toadfish in the whitsundays that was knicknamed thomas the terrible toefish because it would bite peoples toes off at the boat ramp. it was a bigger smooth pufferfish.
The Pufferfish is the aquatic Angry Bird
The hotel that was on the great barrier reef they have replaced it with a new one , it's expensive but is definitely interesting
Kangaroos on golf courses is pretty normal I work at a golf course that has hundreds of roos they generally just keep to themselves as soon as we go near them they're bouncing away
tocumal have heaps of roos on golf course... one of them used to go inside to get food
You've seen the Simpson's it's the fugu fish that puffer fish. I think you'll also find the boab tree in Africa to. Not sure if they exactly the same but similar. Dealing with a huge flock of these birds at the moment. Noisy buggers
The Boab Tree ,is actually a source of water.
Fun fact. Sulfur Crested Cockatoos are the bird worlds equivalent of a 7 yr old ADHD boy with a tool belt containing matches, magnifying lens, machete, BB gun, Whoopi cushion, stink bombs and fire crackers only lovable.
Ian Ian Ian thanks for showing us those ducks man they were hilarious, so Aussie. Guaranteed that was invented one boring Sunday arvo while a just a little bit pissed and bets a a race course were involved.
Fun fact: Dolphins get high on puffer fish poison. On purpose or should i say on porpoise!
Hi Ian, as of today they have had more rain in nsw and qld, towns are flooding again, people are having to leave their homes (some of these people just got back into their houses after the last flood), and we have more rain on the way.
Some goannas willl lay their eggs inside a termite mound where they have dug out a hole. The mound has a great environment for the eggs to hatch but I think the mom has to remember to come back and dig them out.
Im qn aussie and I proud to say I think Aussies will out live everyone
What's awesome is me sitting here in Queensland watching you watch stuff about Australia that I've never seen. Thanks mate.
Ipswich is an area ,built on a lot of old coal mines
Cocky's are not bin chickens. The Ibis is a bin chicken.
They dont call them a MOB of Kangaroos for nothing
I started feeding cockatoos on my balcony just the odd one, but if I didn't keep feeding them when they arrived they just destroyed my pot plants, while smiling - little buggers! 😟
Good on you brother.
Enjoying your channel.
I grew up in Lismore, and my band is playing a benefit gig tonight (in Melbourne) for Lismore flood victims. Whoever you choose to donate to is up to you, but our proceeds are going to the Lismore Bowls Club, and their local community radio station (who ran continuous broadcasts throughout the flood, and directed rescuers to people trapped on roofs).
PS. Should you be interested, CZcams our song "thundabox - me mates are c*nts".