Over the next few days I am going to post photos of birds.
Today's bird is a currawong. We have a pair that regularly visit our garden. I feed them with raw minced meat and this one, the male, will take the meat out of my hand.
Some people don't like currawongs because they think they see off the other birds, but that isn't the case in our garden. It is the other birds, especially the rainbow lorikeets, that scare off these beauties even though they are much bigger than the lorikeets.
They are native to Eastern Australia
Currawongs are larger than a magpie but smaller than a raven.
@aikiuser I think they are only distantly related to corvids, but I seem to remember reading somewhere that they are passerines
@annied They are gorgeous and this pair have been visiting for a few years. This year they actually managed to raise their own youngsters whereas for a couple of years they brought up channel billed cuckoo babies after the cuckoos killed their own babies and left their own eggs in the nest. (I hate channel billed cuckoos).
How nice to have these visitors! We only had doves visit us for a couple years. They had pathetic nest building abilities and each year building the nest on a few weak twigs. Each year we had to try to rescue the eggs after the nest fell apart. Sorry to say there were never any survivors.
@annied They are gorgeous and this pair have been visiting for a few years. This year they actually managed to raise their own youngsters whereas for a couple of years they brought up channel billed cuckoo babies after the cuckoos killed their own babies and left their own eggs in the nest. (I hate channel billed cuckoos).
Great photo… haven’t seen one before. He looks quite relaxed…
Love it!