American reacts to hearing the 'Laughing Kookaburra' for the first time
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The kookaburra laugh is the unmistakable, quintessential sound of Australia.
And, oddly, used in American movies when they need to go to rainforests like the Amazon
Always heard in old Tarzan movies 😂😂😂
Magpies doing their song call is pretty Australian too. And it's just as unique.
We hear them in the morning and evening in the gum trees near us. Lovely!
I live amongst them as many of us do but I can’t help but feel a bit sorry for this trained one in a foreign land with a broken beak.
Same :(
I just said similar. Poor old mate in a yanky studio having to laugh on call. 😢
Probably a rescue situation, the broken beak might not be the only issue it has. It's common for animals that can't be released back into the wild to become ambassador animals for the rescue organisation. It's probably not much more trained than a wild bird to laugh on cue. You can do the same thing to wild birds sitting in a tree and they will react the same.
@@moebius2k103 rescue? He was in The States.
I was so shocked when I saw one in a pet shop in Virginia.
I love how you love Australia! As a proud indigenous woman, on behalf of all Australians, we would love to adopt you!
It's how every reaction video works and sucks people in. He does the same with European countries. You could do the same, start with sport that will draw attention and after that get a P.O box so they can send gifts for mail time.
He doesn't love Australia. He has numerous channels for many different countries.
Basically he's in it for the money 😉
speak for yourself alone
@101steel4 I couldn't find any other channels on other countries.
@@101steel4 Yes - it is kind of disappointing to realise that. His brother, too - he has at least three channels - each doing a different country that he pretends he is super-interested in.
Laughing kookaburras, warbling magpies, bellbirds, eastern rosellas, fairy wrens - the quintessential sounds of Australia. Love 'em all!
You missed the all in one lyrebird
You forget the whip-bird that every North Queenslander knows and loves.
The kookaburra is also known as "the bushman's alarm clock". Yes, you DO wake up to them every morning, and they are VERY common.
when ever i go camping i wake up at 5am hearing the kookaburra every time its annoying
@@xxhunter_killazz2355 try having it while camping at a music festival lol. Camping at least you can easily go to bed early, but a music festival is for the purpose of staying up late, only to be woken again a couple of hours after going to bed by those buggers!
Agree. If you are late up, it's like that are laughing at you, sleepy head.
@@xxhunter_killazz2355I live in a suburb near the Sydney Central Business District. I see and hear them a lot.
I had one going off at 1 am the other night.
Yep, I wake up to their laughter everyday… heaps better than screeching cockatoos!
hear ya....
@@Lolliegoth The young Pink and Greys that screech non stop, they really test a person.
absolutely@@blast3613
100% agree
@@leo1933 I love them too, just not so much at 5am
My most memorable moment with a kookaburra was falling off a trampoline and hearing a kookaburra laughing in the tree above the trampoline. At 9 years old, I was convinced the bird was laughing at me!
I believe they do.
I can remember a similar thing happening when a friend a of mine tried to do a tricky gymnastics move in the back yard and ended up flat on her face. I stopped myself from laughing but a kookaburra started laughing right on queue, and so I couldn't help but laugh then.
Mine was one swooping in and stealing a chicken tender from my fingers at Perth zoo😂
I remember a friend saying a kooka laughed at them when they fell over. They love kids hurting themselves, I guess.
I live in Brisbane Queensland and these guys will wake you up at 5am, they are sooooo loud. But absolutely beautiful.
CBR here and loud but love them
The kookaburras that live in the trees near my place greet the approaching dawn with a group rendition of their laughing at around 4:30am every morning less than 50m from my apartment. On occasion it can be irritating but I have to admit I love them. Mostly I don't wake up now, but I do occasionally, obviously. They're not quiet! But they're an iconic bird that has been an ingrained part of my Australian landscape all of my life.
Why does it have to be 4:30? Why can't the little assholes wait an hour or two?? It's damn near 4:30 on the dot!
Very envious of you.
@anthonyj7989
Then one can only assume that there is no pleasing you.
I'm in West Tassie and I love starting the day listening to them. I get up and grab some slides steak & put several pieces over the balcony ledge. Several I can hand feed and and give a Chun tickle too, they seem to love it... They are way better than annoying Plovers.
@@snakezdewiggle6084 right? Of all the things to be mad about! 🤦
This is the sound of Australia. Yes, we hear the Kookies and the Magpies just before dawn. They also catch snakes, so it's great to have them in your garden.
The word 'kookaburra' is from an Australian aboriginal language. The 'kook' is pronounced as a short sound as in 'book, look, took', -the 'a' as the u in 'up', - burra , the 'u' and ending 'a' as 'u' as in 'up'. The kookaburra also kills snakes by shaking and breaking the spine or bashing the snake against a hard object. This kookaburra's beak is broken. We have kookaburras on our country property. They're always ready to have a good laugh !
yes, came here to say bout the snakes... what an awesome creature is the kooka....we all love the sound of them. its a magnificent song, up close its magical, we are so lucky to hear them... not so good we hear them more in suburbia, but what can we do about that...
you could have said, cook ah bar rah lol
Yup. Hate it when they get an American to say an Australian word. That's how you get an entire nation to pronounce the word "emu" wrong.
@@RealClintCapela that way it would still be wrong. @barnowl has it right. czcams.com/video/q-O5NMPgCk4/video.html
I came to say the same thing about the American pronunciation of the name kookaburra. It was grating on my nerves. :(
Kookaburras are the first bird call of the morning, (probably waking up the other birds), and the last to call of an evening/sunset. Amazing. If you feed them meat/leave it outside on a railing they will come, often with friends. A railing of Kookaburras in chorus.
Much loved.
They are very common. Stunning birds, we hear them often, and we live in the suburbs, one comes to dive into our pool occasionally. Love them.
As I'm watching this a kookaburra started laughing outside my room! (From Brisbane Australia)
Sometimes I ask the universe for guidance and then suddenly all the kookas in a nearby tree start laughing their heads off. It can feel really brutal 😂
Yes, kookaburras are a common experience in Australia. Most common in suburbia and the country. We've named our local kookaburras Kevin and Kelly and they like to perch on our fence and sing. Such a majestic creature
I love kookaburras! They’re very common where I live, can hear them almost every morning. They’re so cool :D
Hear them every morning and in the afternoon. They even sit on our clothesline, like in every back yard in Australia
I hear them most days, see them most days, and feed them all the time. They're very trusting birds.
I hear kookaburras and magpies often. I love the sound of both.
You probably won't believe this but just as you were saying `do Kookaburra's actually laugh?' the kookaburras outside my house started laughing!
They are really a very friendly bird, easy to make friends with.
Mind you they will take an entire chicken from your picnic table if you are not careful.
Yes indeedy.
I am traumatised cause when I'm three a sausage got snached out of my hand by one of them
Lost food to kookaburras, so funny.
Yes they are sausage theives that's for sure@@user-lm9mi6ik8n
Or a sausage of the barbie
Every evening and every morning I am blessed with the Kookas laughing
I live in Sydney & I hear Kookaburras at least every other day. I can be in the middle of doing something when I hear them, they make me stop & smile every time 😊 Taco is gorgeous! I just want to bring him home.
Imagine walking outside for a morning call of nature and being confronted by six kookaburras laughing their heads off at you!
These birds are also known as the bushman alarm clock as they will start laughing at sunrise
They're everywhere. A dozen of them near my bedroom window and they all go off at once. I just lay there and chuckle.
My family is Indigenous, and my mother used to say that every time a kookaburra sings, a baby is born to someone you know. It was true in some times that I remember growing up. I guess some stories are real!
The call sounds like it's name"kooka burra". I've been listening to them all my life. It would be weird if I didn't hear them! I find it comforting in a way. They don't bother me at all. ❣️
The kookaburra laugh just set my cats off. They raced to the back door thinking our resident kookaburra was hanging on the back fence 😅
Kookaburra's are pretty common and they definitely prefer gum trees. It only takes one or two big gums to bring in a kookaburra so you can hear them even in urban areas around parks and reserves and tree'd neighbourhoods. Nothing is more quintessentially Australian than a kookaburra's laugh. I never get tired of hearing them. But if you think one is loud, wait to several of them start up and its an absolute racket!
Yes, you find them in both rural and suburban areas. It's not at all unusual to hear a group of them giving out that call. They are also reasonably friendly for a wild bird. If you're patient and don't move quickly around them they may get friendly.
These guys are pretty common & we hear them all the time ...
I have a couple of kooka's that are always set off by the sound of siren's ...
I love our Kooka's !
Your reaction Ryan! Gobsmacked lmao...they are everywhere here..I can tell you are a proud American and I sincerely hope you get to visit us down under sometime..love your Aussie content
Lol "a proud American" just means an ignorant one
@dcmastermindfirst9418 LOL, I'm a "proud Australian", does that mean I'm an ignorant one?
😱Oh my God, I‘ve never heard of this bird before! Watching jungle movies I always thought that this sound comes from screaming monkeys.😆
This clueless German really learned something this morning! 👍
Your cough seems to get better, Ryan.
Get well soon!🤗
😅that's funny 😊👌. Yes we all learn new things every day 👍🙋🏼♀️
Holidaying backpackers hear them while working on the farms and ask if we have monkeys in Australia, no we don't
@@coolhandluke1503
🫣😉
If you hear it on a jungle video, not a kookaburra
@@heatherhursell3721 The context is movie sound effects, not documentaries. Otherwise you'd be right. But apparently kookaburras sound the way that Hollywood producers think jungle wildlife ought to sound for some reason, so there's a tradition of using them. It has nothing to do with real life.
My daughter lives in a suburb of Adelaide, across the road is a beautiful gum tree lined creek. She is awoken to Kookaburras and Magpies every morning, how lucky is she.
I hear Kookaburras pretty often at home- sometimes they go off at sunrise, which sounds a lot better than a rooster crowing. 😊
Yes, we know Wild Thornberrys. They went everywhere, so probably did come to Aus at least once.
Here in Australia, we hear Kookaburras late in the afternoon, pretty much everywhere in the whole Country, you will hear them. Late arvo. That sound feels like home. You don’t even notice it most of the time, cuz it happens every day.
When we hear them laugh, we know rain is coming. They are like the storm birds, predicting storms and rain. This is in Queensland. In addition, there are kookaburras that don’t finish the laugh.
Very common to hear them even in cities. I had one swoop and snatch the meat out of my hamburger but they are generally friendly with many owing in the mornings for their treats. Lots of houses feed them.
They are in just about every back yard in Australia! I have a family that fly around in trees on my property all day long!😊
Not true
@@carbine5378, well I'm 56 years old and have lived in a number of different houses in my life time, and had kookaburras in yard of everywhere I've lived. As I look out my lounge room window I saw a kookaburra in a tree. Maybe they just don't like you?🤣
@@paulsandford3345 Where those houses back of Bouke? They sometimes hang around where I work because it's on the edge of a conservation park but they never fly the few miles further into the suburbs where I live.
@@TheZodiacz actually I grew up on the south side of Brisbane and bought a house on the north side of Brisbane. Now I live out near Warwick Queensland!
@@paulsandford3345 I’m suburban Brisbane, we have heaps, good rain predictors too 😂
"Is that what you wake up to everyday?"
I do where I live in Western Australia.
Also, the "kook" in Kookaburra is pronounced the way you'd say "Cook". A short 'oo' sound, not a long one.
I have one that sits on my balcony each day love it
I live in Country Australia in Victoria and I have kookaburras all around me. I go to bed at night listening to them calling and I wake up in the morning listening to them. We have a resident pair which bring in their baby each year for us to see we love hearing them and yes we often say why are you laughing at us? What have we done?
Our warbling magpies and songs of our native birds are beautiful.
They mostly call to each other at dawn and dusk. Living in the bush like I do it's a nice way to start and end each day. They can be very loud when they all get going. BTW they catch snakes and lizards as well and give them a good whiplash to kill them. That means snakes don't like to come across the grass near our house in summer, as it's a kill zone with so many kooka's around. Kooka's naturally have great eyesight to spot insects. Once sighted.......gone.
I have a nature reserve behind my house and there are heaps of them in there, I hear them all the time. The call is used in a lot of movies based in jungles.
The laugh is really a territorial warning to other birds
The cartoon 'The Wild Thornberrys' are based in Africa, but they did do an episode in Australia. We have two Kookaburras that sit either on the powerline out the front of our house or on our letterbox. As amusing as their call is, it's much more fun watch a young male trying his hardest to learn how to do it. It sounds like someone trying to talk with laryngitis. Lol
We have many Kookaburra here, and you hear them THROUGH the windows LOL
I love when 20 or so launch into song, it is like a laughing choir.
Yes they are quite common and if you live in an outer suburb or much of the country you’re definitely going to hear them.
Another beautiful birdsong is the magpie which always makes me happy to be home in OZ!! I hear them nearly every morning and evening.
Yes have a family that often lands in the gum tree outside my bedroom window,… never angry to be woken by that sound. Not sure if it’s been mentioned yet but they are often referred to as ‘the bushman’s alarm clock’. They often call at dawn & also at dusk.
I have them in my yard just about every day. They alert you by a group of them singing, that rain is on the way. They are my favourite bird, they are very stocky have a very strong beak and very good eyes and are great hunters.
They are pretty common. We hear them dawn and dusk often as they declare the boundaries of their territory, and the whole kookaburra family will join in, they are loud but pretty cool :)
I've heard Kookaburra laughs in movie 'jungle noises' from as far back as the 1930s.
Kookaburras are common in Eastern Australia, being one native species that gets along well with humans, to the point of often living close to them. I live in Sydney's north, which is a very "green" area, and Kookaburra laughs are often heard around here, usually in the early morning or late evening. If you camp, picnic or barbeque close to the bush, getting a Kookaburra or two hanging around for a possible handout is a known thing. Any food given, they will commonly bash hard a few times against something like a rock before eating.
They are also very common in Western Australia but are considered as an introduced invasive species here.
i lived in hornsby for a while, lovely area with fantastic bushland all around, also lived in marsfield in a little street right at the back, both sides where bushland so birdcalls where the norm. also looking out into the national park valley, stunning.
I grew up in Thornleigh & now live in Gladesville: same. A young kooka once took chicken breast from my and and hit it against the balcony railing on
The most spectacular display I heard was many years ago in the Basket Range outside of Adelaide picking apples.
It was a foggy, cool morning and a couple of kookaburras gave their call in the gloom. Then other kookaburras answered elsewhere in the surrounding hills, then more joined in until we were surrounded by kookaburras calling at each other all around us through the fog.
It was astonishing.
❤
I hear this almost every morning in my backyard and never take it for granted... we are so lucky to have these beautiful amazing creatures :-)
The Wild Thornberrys, what a great show, they probably had a handful of episodes set in Australia, but they went everywhere.
Kookaburras are everywhere and yes you hear them at dawn and dusk. They roost in groups along a high bough and go off all at once.
The maggies tend to greet the dawn and the kookies the sunset. Australia is a fantastic place for birdsong.
The Magpie yodel and the Kookaburra laugh were the the most memorable things I heard when I came to Australia in 1956. Not forgetting the Lyrebird that could mimic any bird call. I wound up with aviaries of many varieties of Australia's most colourful parrots to breed them and enhance their populations.
I wake up to them every morning and evening. Usually a whole family group will sit on the power lines or someone’s tv aerial and let loose.
I threw some seafood spaghetti out for them and they were whacking the noodles about to “kill” them 😂
I also have a hand tame magpie who comes for breakfast. He brought his kids along this year to meet me ❤.
I have little blue wrens ( the male usually has a harem of three females) busy boy.
Also various kites, eagles owls, frogs lizards etc
My mum helped raise generations of magpies on leftover dog kibble.
Their 'laughing' is actually a warning to other Kookaburras that this is his territory
They do it to announce the dawn. They do it to call the family flock together. They do it to greet each other. There are many reasons for them to laugh. They are masters of cleptoparacitism and rob other nesting birds to eat the nestling.
at stupid o'clock every morning!!
@@CQuinnLady true aye. 😂
That isn’t true they communicate through laughing they’re Kingfishers and most kookaburras actually call our to other kookaburras i see them in my yard everyday and when one laughs ten more arrive
So, late every afternoon they sit around in groups all over the Country warning each other face to face about territory? What are you talking about? That is the most uneducated bogan statement I have ever heard.
When a group of them get together and start laughing it's the best sound ever.
Wait till you hear 20 or more of the buggers all going off at once.. That is an unreal sound.
The Kookaburras seem to let out a laugh when someone hurts themselves or breaks something.😃
Beautiful birds, I hear them in the morning & evening where I live. They just make me smile with their unique sound ❤
I live in Redcliffe Queensland Australia, and whenever it is going to rain the Kookaburras go nuts. Laughing singing, whatever they do, it’s amazing. They laugh in the morning and sing with the Magpies, it’s just awesome so nice to wake up to. Australia is amazing.
I live in the suburbs of Sydney and they are very common. They regularly fly onto our balcony. Knowing they are carnivorous I have hand fed them mince meat. They “smack” it side to side before eating it like it was a live animal. It makes sense, it just surprised me the first time that it was trying to stun the already minced meat.😊 very cute, very fun, very loud.
You hear didgeridoo and kookaburra sound effects in movies as exotic jungle noise all the time. I noticed that they are using other sounds like magpies and butcher birds etc more often too. You will notice it now I’m sure. Emus were used in season 1 Star Trek TNG as alien birds lol. They had them wandering around set with Ozzie bird noise in the background. Doubt Wild Thornberry’s was set in Australia but we did have the show.
Very common and yes, if you’re in their territory you hear them most mornings and night. If you’re close to two territories it can get really noisy.
I love kookaburras. There’s a tree at the back of my house and a bunch of them often get in there at dusk. When they all laugh at the same time it is super loud; you have to shout if you want to have a conversation and forget about watching TV. The old Tarzan movies of the 1960s used to have kookaburras laughing in the jungle scenes; I guess they figured hardly anyone would know what it was and it sounded exotic. Maybe the kookaburras were laughing because they also had lions and tigers roaming through the same jungle. Never learn your natural history from old movies😂
The Kookaburra call has been used for decades by Hollywood on the sound track of most jungle scenes footage whether the story is set in South America, Africa or Asia. It is Native to the East coast of Australia. It's very rare to hear only one in the wild. They live in extended families and when one starts the others all join in.
It's pronounced Cook-a-burra ... they are not kooky 😂
We have them hang out and around our home in the western suburbs of Sydney and these were so common as i grew up as a child in Tropical North Queensland.
They are called Cookies for short bud
@@Pavlovaboi38born and lived in Australia for half a century. Never heard anyone call them Cookies.
@@shaungibson2033 really?? I'm from Adelaide so maybe it's more common there?
@@shaungibson2033 Also I wrote cookies coz that's how the word sounded, could be spelt "Kooky"
@@Pavlovaboi38from NSW. Never heard them referred to them as sounding like the word Cookie.
Isn’t this Kookaburra magnificent 🩵
If you live near bushy areas
Yes you wake up to kookaburra & cockatoos laughing & screeching
Yep, the kooka's wake me up every morning on the Northern Beaches, Sydney ❤ em
You looked like you were completely in awe!
These birds are found all around the continent and more often heard not seen, but when they do get close, they can be quite interactive, and have big personalities, like many Aussie birds! We all love them (I can't think of anyone who doesn't). Magic of the nature of this our home is unmatched, but of course we are biased. The birds of Australia are phenomenal, the home of song. They gave us SONG. They GIVE US song. I have been stopped by local magpies who sung to me, and have hand-fed some others to be thanked with long and complex melodies right to my face, eye to eye.. It brings me to tears.
Do the possum and Koala next lol...
They are a little scary 😅
Possums! See one and they’re so cute. Hear one at night it’s like the devil heavy breathing in the dark. Eep!
Why ? He will call it a bear
Tassie devils has some scared 😂
Their glowing eyes at night...
... They will be in your dreams lil
@@Eva9000 And when they jump on your tin roof and you can hear there claws scraping...
We live about 10km from the Melbourne CBD and these guys wake us up most mornings around 5:30am at this time of year - amazing to wake up with a smile on your face
I hear the Kookaburra sometimes late at dusk or early in the morning. I had a magpie imitating one. The Lyrebird is one you should look at, it imitates other birds as well as chain saws and car alarms. In jungle movies even though are not in those countries.
Kookaburras are possibly my favourite birds. I love their fat beaks and you can't help but smile when you hear them. I once went to a concert in an outdoor amphitheatre and the performers told a funny joke, and just at that moment a family of kookaburras started laughing, then everyone started laughing at the kookaburras laughing.
Happy Arvo/(Gravy Day)! 😄 More Paul Kelly perhaps? 🤔 "Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree, merry merry King of the bush is he"! 🎶 I have one male who sometimes visits and he bashes his prey proudly on my balcony rail! 🥴 Their visits always make me smile! 😁
When I was a child, they were often perching on the telephone wires across the road, laughing and laughing. Marvelous childhood. 💙
Where I live I wake up to kookaburra song every morning
I love our Kookaburra and its laugh. Sometimes we have five on the wires out front of our house and they all laugh together. Some days we wake up to them. They are my favourite bird.
Surprisingly I’ve heard them in the city and I live in high rise apartments. As you hearing them in movies, I remember being surprised at hearing them in many jungle scenes of all sorts of movies, even old time movies. I used to think, “But this movie is not set in Australia!”
Yes. Back in the dim, distant past of black and white movies, the old Tarzan movies with Johnny Weissmuller (retired Olympic swimmer), all the African jungle scenes were peppered with kookaburra calls. Of course, we always knew they were fake.
Kookaburras group laugh first thing in the morning and last thing at sundown her in Australia. I have quite a few family groups laughing every day at my place and just love hearing them.
Good on you Ryan. The Kookaburra makes one of the iconic sounds of the Australian bush. Silence, wind in the trees, birds singing, laughing, and whistling. Ahhh, I love it.
Have a good Xmas and new year, you and your family. Cheers digger. 🙃🙃🙃
We often wake up to these beautiful birds. Love them
One of my two favourite birds. The other is the rainbow lorikeet - dramatically coloured, noisy, quarrelsome, and the most enthusiastic bathers ever. When you get a few of them in our deck's birdbath flapping their wings like crazy and sending showers of water up in the air, you have to think that they are enjoying themselves.
Our house is 100 metres above sea level looking over the Pacific Ocean to the east. The rising sun hits us a few minutes before the lowlands down by the beaches and the marinas. We have kookaburras nesting in our back yard about 20 metres higher (we're on the side of a steep hill) and we get woken up earlier than the people at sea level.
One thing to remember about cockatoos and kookaburras is that they are very noisy. Their volume control is set on 11.
There is nothing more Australian than listening to the sound of kookaburras and magpies love it. Kookas usually come and sit on our pool fence and wait for us to feed them, they will disappear for a couple of months and all of sudden they will be back - I,m sure that they are doing the rounds of the neighbourhood and spending a bit of time with everyone.. Magpies are the same they come in for a feed and bring their young with them both are pretty friendly once they get to know you. They reckon if you feed a magpie it will recognise you and wont swoop but even if thats true how do you know which ones you fed they all look the same to me so best to stay away from an area where they are swooping people just to be safe..
They are pretty friendly. I rescued one once, impaled on a barbecue wire fence next door. Nursed him for a couple of days and released. He came back to say G'day at least once a week. Used to let me pet him. Got photos. My favourite bird!
I had one living in a gum tree in the front of my house. Every morning at 6am it would start laughing. My own personal alarm clock. They are beautiful birds.
Hi Ryan. I live about 10 minute drive from Sydney CBD and the kookaburras laugh every morning and night. Love it.
I find that when a kookaburra laughs I can typically expect rain. I heard a few of them yesterday and it rained all afternoon yesterday and today.
The beautiful sound of Australia, I wake up and here these birds in the mornings, beautiful
Playing golf, early one morning I hit my first shot into the rough. A whole flock of Kookaburras immediately started laughing in chorus. Hilarious.
We had a family of 4 kookaburras that lived in our big garden in the Adelaide Hills. They would follow me around when I mowed the lawn as the mower would get the worms up to the surface.
They would often leave their tiny babies on our garden wall for a day when they went off somewhere, almost like they saw us as live-in “babysitters”. The baby would not move from that spot all day until its Mum came home.
Hearing their laughing calls in he mornings was very reassuring to our kids (and to us too)
Kookaburra & Lyre Bird.
Trolling birds of Australia, one will give you a heart attack with a random sound, the other will laugh at you. They're a good combo & I think as Aussie as you get.
Also as an Aussie I have every episode plus the Rugrats movie cross over of The Wild Thornberrys. Great shows.
The Kookaburra is fairly common but it also depends on where you are. Example, I used to live more central & upper Victoria, where came across them now & then.
Now living down towards to coast outside Melbourne, haven't seen or heard one in years. Hawks & Eagles here though. There is an Eagle nest over at the Avalon Air Port that have territory that covers a lot of the area. When the Air Show is on they tend to fly over towards the You Yangs to get away from the planes & stuff. Those running the show try ensure all flyers are aware & keep an eye out for them, if anyone spots them everyone is to avoid that area until they've moved on. Since it's been going on for years though once the first Jet goes up the Eagles know & immediately start heading away to the mountain as they know the Jets don't fly over there.
Ilove their laugh in the morning ... and watching them carry a snake to a branch and dropping him for a tenderised meal.
I live in Balmain Sydney which is on the harbour close to Sydney Harbour Bridge and hear them just outside every morning as the sun first appears. They are good alarm clocks if you like to get up early.