Wait, why are YOU on the roof? I feel like the birds have an excuse… what’s yours? 🤨
My building is taller than the neighbouring one.
As seen from some of the comments here, people like to disparage Australian White Ibises when all they’re showing is how adaptable and clever they are. There are so many in human towns and cities because we have taken away a lot of their natural habitats. In regional areas they are sometimes called ‘the farmers’ friend’, due to their habit of flocking into areas afflicted by plagues of locusts and gorging on the insects.
They have really touching courting behaviour. The male secures a pairing territory on a branch of a tall tree to attract a female. The courtship ceremony involves the male putting on a noisy display, as well as showing aggression towards other males. When a female arrives, the male attracts her by bowing from his branch. He then offers the female a twig, forging a bond when she grasps it and they begin to preen one another. Once the pair bond is cemented, the birds fly off to build a nest at another location.
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Man, you guys have pretty ibises. Ours here in colombia are black.
Ha! That’s amusing. The Australian white ibis has a reputation locally for being a really ugly bird, with their kinda dirty off-white coat. Personally I don’t entirely agree and I think they have an unfair reputation. They’ve adapted really well to the human environment, and are particularly fond of rubbish tips and rubbish bins. It’s earned them the nickname “bin chicken”.
But if you want a bird that’s much more attractive looking, the straw-necked ibis looks exactly like the white ibis, if it was wearing a shiny black/blue/green cape.
A friend tells me that they’re called bin chickens and that they smell abominable.
If we were surviving on bin contents, we’d smell too. If you want to know more about them: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/offtrack/behind-the-ibis-invasion/6842242
OK, tongue in cheek but I noticed that the bins in the video were either open or overflowing with bags that can be pierced, not secured under a lid.
I wonder if one day they’ll study the cast-iron digestive system of this species. We may learn something about survival. The way we’re going at the moment and its repercussions we may learn to throw out less food and also eat and and smoke less poison and not play ‘I’ve got a bigger nuke than yours’. In which case, survivors will be scavenging too and we’ll be smelling like bin chickens.
What are the chickens doing out of the trash?
Bin-juice drinking cunts.
