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Some birds were having an orgy on my front porch yesterday so I looked up what they were and was thinking there are a lot of cool birds in my area I take for granted. Thought I'd share some of them with you! I live in NSW, Australia.

The aforementioned orgy participants, yellow thornbill

(all photos from http://www.mdahlem.net/)
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Sulphur-crested cockatoo
(Cockies)
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Australian white ibis
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Australian magpie
Vicious fuckers, but maggies make good semi-domesticated pets
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Galahs... Their babies are so noisy in the mornings.
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Eastern rosella, one of my favourites because they're a bit rare here
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The more common crimson rosella

We've been keeping track of a mixed couple of an eastern rosella and crimson rosella that have had babies this year. So cute!
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Laughing kookaburra, also a tad rare
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Crested pigeon (we've always called them topnotch pigeons and Google shows the same birds, so...)

They do a crazy mating dance
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Noisy friarbirds scare me, they have heads like the skeksis from The Dark Crystal...

They eat nectar from flowers like bottlebrushes. If you have a look, you can see straight through his nostrils to the other side!
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Australian maned wood duck. When I was a kid there was a couple that would bring their babies from the creek where they lived past our house and up to the dam every day.
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A puffed up little Jacky Winter
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Another one of my favourites, the superb fairy wren. The males get awesome iridescent blue plumage during the mating season. Otherwise they're usually brown.
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Magpie-larks, aka peewees or weepees.

There was one of these that every day for years would bash itself into our windows. We hung up fake snakes, put posters of people in the windows... Crazy thing just wouldn't stop because it saw its reflection in the window and tried to attack, I guess.
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Superb parrots are pretty rare, and I think they might be endangered. I remember a campaign about them when I was in primary school. But we flocks of about 10 of these coming through from time to time.
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Little corellas, which we actually thought might have been baby cockatoos at one time before we found out what they were.
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Eastern Spoonbill, who I've only seen once eating the yabbies from our dam
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Yellow-faced honeyeaters also enjoy bottlebrushes
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Welcome swallows built their nest in our garage for a few years in a row
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Willie wagtails, another one of my favourites. These little characters hop around the yard and waggle their tails up and down and side to side.
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Pied Currawongs... I didn't know that's what they were called until just now.
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Silvereye, cranky buggers
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Brown falcons
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And last, the Australian raven. They'd scare the crap out of me when I was a kid because their call sounds like an evil laugh, "Haaar haaar haaaaaar!"
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So these things are basically mini-macaws?

Awesome
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Macaws? No, they're just parrots... Maybe a foot long from tail to beak. They'll bite the fuck out of you!
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So basically mini macaws.
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So by that logic a budgie is a mini macaw?
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urmom is a minibitch stfu