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Originally Posted by montsnmags
Currawongs pulled the head off my canary through its cage bars. I never much liked currawongs, though they're only doing what they do (or, I'm confused, and the canary was protecting me, and detects coal gas by self-decapitation). Currawongs have a nice song though, if not as good as our magpies.
I like magpies. Crows are nice too. Noisy Miners are cool (that's a bird...I'm not just circling back to the canary thing...in fact this particular post is going nowhere, which is what I was saying the other day down at the beach...)
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I like those black bird families too. They are rather intelligent, more than dogs. Crows can live up to 130 years and learn surprising behaviours.
The black birds around here are a species that lives in tribes of around 20 individuals. They spread in an area of about 200 yards and you can hear them
discussing loudly. You know they do when agitation stirs the lot of them and they converge to a common ennemy. They used to control the territory around my house and chase cats off the lot.
Surprisingly what chased them off my property was a rogue squirrel. He was feeding on pine nuts in two big trees. The black birds had nest sites in those trees so the squirrel preempted by pushing all offsprings out to their death. Squirrels can be rather nasty. It still kills young birds and now it pushes egg out, I've seen it do that. Creepy when he stares at me from 10 feet away...