any one know how to tell the sex of a magpie?
Does it keep pecking you and won't shutup , well you know what sex that is hehe
ouch!!!!
ha ha
here the females have more grey feathers, and are smaller and less attractive
the males a blacker all over and more handsome birds
and they fight more than the girls
cheers, that's what I thought as I've been watching the babies and i reckon I can pick them from a few months now. :good:
I have a family in a large gum tree adjacent to my home. They quite often patrol the back lawn in search of food. The Treasurer thinks I have lost my marbles as I try to copy their whistles and warbles.!
I am pretty certain the birds have exactly the same opinion.!:whistle2:
Yeah it was a good season this year as ours had 2 lots of babies so there's 8 full time that live next to my neighbour and a few part times that come for a feed as well :)
And nah mate, if you were expecting her to answer with a warble well that's a different story so I'd say your still play with all your marbles :good:
What sex is this one? http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z57/jabiru_stamps/Stamp1980AustralianMagpie.jpg
that's a male magpie .. trust me .. ,, kel ,,
We have Willy Wagtails, Maggies and Butcher birds here :good:
The crows that used to hang about have mysteriously "disappeared" :diablo:
Quote from: 'JeffH' pid='11992' dateline='1365912188'What sex is this one? http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z57/jabiru_stamps/Stamp1980AustralianMagpie.jpg
:dontknow: sorry Jeff, it's not real :winkextra:
but if anything I'd say female going off my book
sorry Kel :(
:big_boss: ok A J , you the BIG BOSS you win again . I give up .. :beg: please forgive me for I have been caught out again ,wont I ever learn ..?? ,, kel ,,
Do the males feed the fledglings? Or just the females?
both as far as I can tell but more so the mum's :good:
Sorry Kel, I'm so mean :cray:
I feed every morning and every afternoon , 3 magpies , mum dad and baby and both of them feed the baby , and mum and dad eat out of my hand . plus 3 kookaburra,s , that eat out of my hand.
3 butcher birds , these are the meat eaters so we buy a large roll of dog,s meat from the supermarket , I cut it into 2 inch blocks and wrap it separate and put it in my fridge/ freezer in my shed ..
then all the mickies come round when it is feed time and they will eat anything , . but I don't like to feed them , but cant stop them , they wait me out every time .. ,, kel ,,
These pics are from 2010
a very wet cold day
my maggies were in full swing as I feed them mince in little balls
the shyer ones don't eat from my hand but the one in the right of the pic would only eat from my hand - she wouldn't touch the food otherwise. she would wait at the back door or pace up and down the kitchen window ledge & they even sit on the electricity wire and watch out for me in the kitchen and then fly down
the dog loves them cause it means she will get hand fed mince too!
they come back each year
I think the one to the left is the boy and the other 2 are females but i'm no expert on birdies
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far left bird
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far right bird
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Quote from: 'keldaw' pid='12039' dateline='1365933043'I feed every morning and every afternoon , 3 magpies , mum dad and baby and both of them feed the baby , and mum and dad eat out of my hand . plus 3 kookaburra,s , that eat out of my hand.
3 butcher birds , these are the meat eaters so we but a large roll of dog,s meat from the supermarket , I cut it into 2 inch blocks and wrap it separate and put it in my fridge/ freezer in my shed ..
then all the mickies come round when it is feed time and they will eat anything , . but I don't like to feed them , but cant stop them , they wait me out every time .. ,, kel ,,
what are mickies Kel? are they the miner birds?
birds are great to feed
I reckon that feeding the birds is a nice way to start or end days
yes Robbie , they are miners , grey and yellow one,s not the black one,s , we live beside the park so we also get a lot of ibis here picking on the smaller birds , so I try and keep them away ,
( I just wish I had an air rifle ) ,, kel ,,
We have lots of miners around here -several coal mines in the area.
Used to have lots of mynahs [and koels] too but haven't seen many lately (good).
Jeff
jeff , sorry about the spelling , I just followed robbiegal ,, she,s to
blame , even my wife said , mynor , not even close to it ..
,, kel ,,
we got heaps of birds around in the bush, but we only feed the butcher birds, but in the end they became demanding, and we had to teach them that food is a treat and not an everyday thing where they can sit at the back door and make noise and expect to be feed every 5 minutes. they are really smart birds and you can hold a tiny piece of bread in your fingertips and hold it out next to you and they do a flyby - snap, and its gone they have fantastic aim, I have never been hooked by one. sometimes we say don't snatch and they land next to you and squiz closer and closer and gently take it from your hand. depends on what you got to feed them. they are super smart and when you take the kitchen scraps to the chooks in the morning sometimes they follow you down and wait and the chook pen door, before putting it in the chook pen, I offer the bird a squiz to see what I got, they sit on the tea tree branch and I shove the plate in its face and it looks around and turns food over to look for anything interesting, sometime there might be a bit of meat in there or for some reason it likes pasta spirals too, takes what it wants then buggers off.
Quote from: 'keldaw' pid='12056' dateline='1365976681'jeff , sorry about the spelling , I just followed robbiegal ,, she,s to
blame , even my wife said , mynor , not even close to it ..
,, kel ,,
i never knew it was miner with a 'y' - ha ha
they are pesky little guys and a real threat to our native birds
Quote from: 'Australian coin' pid='12070' dateline='1365987953'we got heaps of birds around in the bush, but we only feed the butcher birds, but in the end they became demanding, and we had to teach them that food is a treat and not an everyday thing where they can sit at the back door and make noise and expect to be feed every 5 minutes. they are really smart birds and you can hold a tiny piece of bread in your fingertips and hold it out next to you and they do a flyby - snap, and its gone they have fantastic aim, I have never been hooked by one. sometimes we say don't snatch and they land next to you and squiz closer and closer and gently take it from your hand. depends on what you got to feed them. they are super smart and when you take the kitchen scraps to the chooks in the morning sometimes they follow you down and wait and the chook pen door, before putting it in the chook pen, I offer the bird a squiz to see what I got, they sit on the tea tree branch and I shove the plate in its face and it looks around and turns food over to look for anything interesting, sometime there might be a bit of meat in there or for some reason it likes pasta spirals too, takes what it wants then buggers off.
sound like fun company AC
the maggies follow me when i'm in the garden
they keep an even 2-3 paces from me and just hang around for the pickings!
yes, i have had to insist that they be gentle with the feeding or they don't get it - they figure out the rules very quickly
feeding the magpie,s is easy , they just take the meat from my hand
and the kookaburra,s are the same , very gentle , but sometimes they miss and get the meat and my finger too , but don't worry it don't hurt at all . ,, kel ,,
I used to feed a kookaburra when we lived in greenslopes on the brizzy river
it was a really gentle bird with us (not the local riff raff - like snakes etc)
And I thought that this was a coin forum!
These chaps would take your fingers off.
Black and Yellow cockatoo.
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beautiful
I got the hubby to rescue an injured cockatoo in our back yard
I was the supervisor
handed the hubby his leather garden gloves
the bird bit through the leather gloves and near bit his finger off!!
bird got rescued
but never again have we tried to handle a distraught wild bird
a big cardboard box has been the rescue container from then on!
I have found if one approaches the bird with an offering of food BEFORE trying to handle the injured bird, then things go quite well.
i'll try that next time - ta
fingers are apparently quite tasty to a distressed bird!
How about sexing kangaroos?
Have a look at the reverse of a Northern Territory 2001 50¢. Looks to be reasonably, anatomically correct for a happy couple.
Not so sure about Western Australia though!
Jeff