I was one of those people who asked about Bin Chickens in a previous video. Thanks for your post!

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

Oh awesome! That must have been awhile ago now but I thought of that comment as soon as I saw them! Happy New Year!!! ❤🎉

Thank you for the Acknowledgement, you are always respectful. Miss your smiling face x

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

3 ай бұрын

I miss you too!! ❤️

Thanks for all the entertaining birb videos throughout 2023, happy new year! ❤

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

Happy new year!! 🎉❤️

I love ibises they are so funny and cheeky! Farmers friends because they also help aerate the soil and eat bugs that damage crops they have always been one of my favourite birds. The noises they make are very funny too

Thank you for all the videos. Wishing you a great 2024.

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

Happy New Year!!! ❤🎉

The “Which really just shows nothing is sacred in Australia” line got me lol. Happy new year

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

Happy new year!!! 🎉❤️

@veroniqueboulvard6315

6 ай бұрын

Thank you my dear for this video. I didn't know that Ibis lives in Australia too. I've never had the chance to see them around during my staying in Victoria. I wish you a healthy and happy stepping into the New Year with endless kookaburra and magpies melodies 🌟❤️

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

​@@veroniqueboulvard6315 Thank you! Happy New Year! ❤🎉

These birds are SPECTACULAR fliers. In a previous place I lived I used to watch them from a high level apartment and you would see very smooth co-ordinated flying from flocks of them. They would glide and turn together and around each other without much flapping. I once saw a pair of them flying a few meters overhead and one in the pair just did a barrel roll, kept flying straight next to its mate, but folded its wings a little and and turned 360 degrees without shifting the path of flight... just showing off to the mate I guess. On the ground they may look like sheep but in the air they are smooth as acrobats.

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

Sounds amazing!

Ah, yeah, the infamous flying sheeps ! 😀

We translated sacred to bin, amazing work

I love the Bin Chickens, here in South East Queensland there are a lot of them. I love seeing their huge nests made out of sticks. I have had one coming to check out my back yard recently as I feed other birds, I was a bit worried that he would bring his friends tho, so was glad when he did not come back!

have a very happy new year! 🥳🐦‍⬛🪿

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

Happy New Year!! ❤🎉

👍👍👍

I heard one of these for the 1st time in my life. Never thought they made any voices but what I thought I heard was a deep sounding duck quack out front and as I went outside to see what this noise was or duck to my surprise I had a bin chicken sitting on top of the side fence. One it was a surprise that this bird was even at my place as there's none around here and 2nd was the bird must have made that quack sound. See them all the time in the city and where there's shops etc but never hear them make any noises.

Happy 2024 and all the best to you and the birds!

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

Happy New Year!!! ❤🎉

Crazy bird lady. I love it 😂!

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

😁❤️

Sacred Ibis = Bin Chicken, I love Australia

@1stcrg

5 ай бұрын

Me too.

Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year from Denmark 🇩🇰🎇🍾🎁🙏

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

Happy New Year!!! ❤🎉

We call them wood storks here in Fl.

oooooooooooooooo a different type of videeoeooeoeoeoeoeo :D

Happy New Year! I appreciate your videos and all of the beautiful birds in them and learning about the Australian bin chicken

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! You've been a huge amazing supporter of my channel and all of your love and support really means so much to me and helps me continue making videos! Hugely appreciate it all and wishing you a very happy new year!! ❤️🎉

Your voice fits these voice over videos very well. Consider making more 👍🏻

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

Oh thanks!

Absolutely love all your videos. Thank you for continuing to share your special moments❤

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

Thank you and Happy New Year!!! ❤🎉

@clau9609

6 ай бұрын

@@BackyardBirdsofAustralia happy new year!

You had me at bin chicken…

Thank you for making our days better with all these cute videos of birds. Wishing you a great 2024 💜

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

Happy New Year!!! ❤🎉

@letty_thedrawer

6 ай бұрын

@@BackyardBirdsofAustralia 💜💜💜💜

South africas version is the infamous "hardy-daa", also an ibis of some sort

BIN CHICKENS, LETS GOOOOO!!!

U2! happy new year from the other side of the globe!

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

Happy New Year!!! ❤🎉

@PerspectiveEngineer

6 ай бұрын

Isn't funny how small the globe has got? We should all be friends by now. Peace to you and ours.

I think you need to put a bin in your back yard so you can do your part in preserving the wonderful and rare bin chicken. Happy New Year my friend!

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

Happy New Year!! 🎉

I love these bin chickens❤❤❤❤ they are lovely..We have many many up here in NQld as well..😊😊🇦🇺🇦🇺🦘🦘

Wishing You a Very Happy New Year BBoA...... And may I request that Your Videos are a Little longer in 2024...... As they are so Delightful.... Bless You Dear Lady.... :-)) xxxxx

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

Happy New Year!!! ❤🎉

Just discovered your channel love your videos. 2 types of Ibis there the Strawneck Ibis (black and white ones) and the White Ibis which we all know and love!

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

3 ай бұрын

Thanks! ❤

There are sightings of these and the Straw Necked Ibis and Glossy Ibis in New Zealand . Individuals and flocks that have flown across the Tasman . The Glossy Ibis is the most common , there is a record of a breeding pair being seen. Amazing that they successfully cross a minimum of 1600 km of ocean

@robertlipka9541

6 ай бұрын

You should see them fly and you would not be surprised they managed a crossing. They are very good gliders on air currents. I once noticed that their beak acts as a kind of stabilizer when they do have to flap their wings... you get a kind of sin wave oscillation from the tip of the beak to the end of the bird, keeping the middle of moving on a straight line with relatively leisurely wing flaps. Overall, I guess very efficient flight.

@PerspectiveEngineer

6 ай бұрын

Thats incredibly cool.... but if you could why wouldn't you?!? I'm just really interested in how quickly a lot of wild animals are domesticated themselves. It's almost like cooperation benefits both sides. And it wild animals can figure that out why can't we… :-)

@caravanlifenz

6 ай бұрын

I can't believe how many Australian birds have introduced themselves over the past century. I've got a cute but noisy little welcome swallow nesting above my caravan, so I read up on her, and it turns out they're Australians who invited themselves over about 50 years ago. Aussie citizenship does provide the right to live in NZ, so I guess she's allowed here (the welcome swallow is welcome here).

Terrific birds which ever name they are given .Thanks for filming these beauties & all your videos. Wishing you a happy new year 2024 and lots more bird adventures .🥂👏🏻

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

Thank you and Happy New Year!!! ❤🎉

Thank you for so many fantastic videos, I hope 2024 brings you everything you wish for 😊❤

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

Happy New Year!!! ❤🎉

My mum made a sherry trifle like that....😅 Love that name "Bin Chicken" Happy New Year from the UK

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

Happy New Year!!! ❤🎉

For those who don't know, these are also known as the Australian white ibis. However, many Australians don't like them for various reasons, thus the more commonly-known name.

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

Funnily enough I've mostly heard people use the colloquial term in an affectionate way while saying that they love them. So hopefully they're not too widely disliked!

Happy New Years . ! Byboa, best from the PNW.

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

Happy New Year!!! ❤🎉

@PerspectiveEngineer

6 ай бұрын

@@BackyardBirdsofAustralia Thanks! Nickkie think Snowball is a great name For our somewhat new Kooka He's so round ! 🙂

I love the wild birds you film it makes me want to get a new phone so I can go out and capture some new video myself thank you for inspirations.🙏🕛

Happy new year!

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

Happy New Year!!! ❤🎉

BIN CHICKEN! BIN CHICKEN BIN CHICKEN! 💖💖💖 There's so much hate out there for the poor bin chickens, and I was guilty of it myself for a while. But then I realised they've taken to plundering our bins and back yards because we've destroyed the habitats that they used to rely upon, and moved into our bins and back yards pretty much out of desperation. Now I feel really guilty for ever being angry at/about them, and much respect that they've managed to do so well in their new niche. I confess, I did snort/laugh at your description of doing a double take on seeing 'a sheep' casually lift up and fly off, especially with the "wait, WHAT was in that tiramisu, anyway?!" 🤣

@DrBunnyMedicinal

6 ай бұрын

Also, a bit early, but Snippy Gnu Lear! I hope 2024 is better/kinder for all of us, but I especially hope that you have an AMAZING 2024! Your videos spread so much joy and information about how some of our native birds are. Hope the MEL 'summer' is treating you well, and the rest of your life!

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! Always appreciate your comments! Happy New Year!!! ❤🎉

@DrBunnyMedicinal

6 ай бұрын

@@BackyardBirdsofAustralia 💖

Ok now i know what a bin chicken is 😅

I've got a great pair of bin chicken socks from the Sydney Sock Project! Actually I bought two pairs….

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

Oh that's awesome!!

I enjoy the daily visit from my local Ibis (bin chicken). They will follow me around the yard looking for some food LOL 😊

Thank you for all your bird videos throughout the year. Love them all. Looking forward to seeing more videos in the coming new year. Wishing you a very Happy and Healthy New year, 2024 🎉🎉🎉 1:07 🎉 1:07

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! Really appreciate your kind words. Happy New Year!!! ❤🎉

@scaravanos9076

6 ай бұрын

@@BackyardBirdsofAustralia you're welcome and you for the new year wishes ✨️

Mosquito lookin' flying sheep.

The recent heavy rains have the Aussie Bin Chickens grazing every paddock and grass parkland at the moment. I too spotted a huge number of them grazing alongside a flock of sheep and also in local public parks. Better there than the usual for name sake, raiding a bin for scraps somewhere. Thanks for all your entertaining videos throughout 2023. Have a wonderful 2024 New Year.

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

Ohh that's interesting. Thank you and Happy New Year!!! ❤🎉

Your videos are what makes KZread so valuable - wishing you a healthy and happy 2024 from Vienna xx

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

Thank you, that really means a lot. Wishing you a Happy New Year! ❤🎉

Happy 2024 to you too. All the best. Stay safe. 😄😄

:: me watching clip :: "A flying sheep? It's a Christmas mira..... nevermind" 😂 (Although for those of us not in Australia, discovering bin chickens is pretty cool too 😎)

Is "Bin chicken" a new social media era meme name for them like "trash pandas" (reddit name for raccoons started circa 2014) or is it older?

@johndavis7944

6 ай бұрын

The name Bin Chicken has been around for a while. But became more popular with the heightened activity of bin raiding and thieving food from children. The media as always pushed the issue, covering stories of their bazaar behaviour.

The first time I crossed the ditch for a holiday in 'Stralya was when I was 19. I saw one of these and was somewhat frightened by its terrifying bald head that it was sticking in rubbish bins. I called it an Australian kiwi (since it has a long beak like our kiwi bird). It's the evil cousin of our kiwi. You won't catch a kiwi bird in NZ with such poor table manners.

Best wishes for a happy new year. I own two parrots and appreciate birds.

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

Happy new year!! 🎉❤️

Well this is an unusual change of pace :-) Good luck naming all of them lol. Have a Happy New Year ❤

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

Haha yes that would be a challenge! Happy New Year!!! ❤🎉 And a huge huge thank you for all of your support for my channel!!!

Have you ever been a bit far from your home and one of 'your birds' landed on you or near you... just to say hi!? Bin Chicken, eh? I've never heard of those. Funny story about you thinking they were sheep at 1st...flying sheep!

@sydnorth5868

6 ай бұрын

Watch this spoof episode of Planet Earth... kzread.info/dash/bejne/qWiYu7mhm7bIhLg.html

From where do you buy treats for the kookaburras?

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

I usually get the Wombarro Insectivore from pet stores or online 🙂

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

www.wombaroo.com.au/product/insectivore-rearing-mix/

Hope you have a great New Year 🎉🎉🎉

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

Happy new year!! 🎉❤️

Ooh the ibises, why called bin chicken?

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

5 ай бұрын

Apparently they're known for scavenging through bins in urban environments

The Australian White Ibis (Threskiornis molucca) alongside of their 'cousins' in the dark jackets, the Straw-necked Ibis (Threskiornis spinicollis). Powerful flyers and it's wonderful to see them flying in their chevrons. Historically rare in urban areas, the Australian ibises, particularly the White and the Straw-necked, have become established in urban areas of the east coast in increasing numbers since the late 1970s. That said, however, in these same decades, there have been significant declines in populations of all of Australia's waterbirds, including the Australian ibis species. Causes are thought to include reductions in beneficial flooding, loss of habitat, and high mortality rates. Note that middle one: loss of habitat. If you've an interest in crime fiction, or crime real life, you'll have heard the saying: "follow the money" when tracking down the criminal. "Loss of habitat". The ones making that money from habitat destruction are Developers and, before they metastasis into that final form, Real Estate agents. It's important to devalue something that's been a natural, or indeed a public, good before you snatch it away from said public. Another old saying is apropos here: give a dog a bad name and hang him. It's important that Developers & their larval form (the Real Estate agents) devalue those things that they themselves can't make money on or from. The poor can't afford property, so they're demonised. This is doubly so regarding Australian First Nations people. If you're no longer allowed to shoot or poison them in actuality, do it with words. And the same is true of those pesky animals... living in (say) wetlands... wetlands that could become CANAL DEVELOPMENTS funneling money into the claws of the Developers and their cringing lackeys. Those lackeys aren't just Real Estate agents. They're city/county Councillors. They're journalists and legacy 'papers of record'. In Australia, all newspapers rely on advertising revenue. The single largest provider of that revenue are... Developers and Real Estate agents. So powerful are these entities within the Australian media, that by the 1980s, these commercial entities didn't just get editorial veto over unflattering stories, they were able to enter into our 'papers of record' complete works of financial fiction. But the other practice that was established was deliberately inserting demeaning and debasing language (again & again & again) when describing the Australian poor (inc. the unemployed), First Nations people (subjected to written poison) and Australia's natural wildlife (whenever it gets in the road of gross profits, or their presence might 'lower property values'). "Bin Chickens" is Real Estate spin for devaluing a national asset that isn't making the Real Estate agents immediately rich. Australia does have fetid creatures plaguing the nation, but I won't be co-opted by them or their poisonous language to devalue our unique, and disappearing, wonders.

@pakjohn48

6 ай бұрын

I can just see it now at the AGM of Associated Lackeys of Australia - "All those in favour of renaming the Australian White Ibis as the Bin Chicken, say Aye" ..... (what a fantasy)🤣

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

Ohhhh wow that's really interesting and is probably true of a lot of things. I just thought that it was a somewhat playful and affectionate nickname that Australians gave them! Really appreciate the info and you being a regular on my channel. Wishing you a very happy new year!!

@nbell63

6 ай бұрын

The real estate/media association was (initially) from an ABC (Background Briefing) investigation in the early 2000s, which has since been ratified, and expanded upon, by further investigative reporting - inc. Michael West Media (excellent for 'following the money'). I studied environmental science in the early 80s and have been watching the messengers and the messages of the 'burn the habitat for profit' players ever since. It's been interesting, if somewhat disheartening, to hear the influence of the lobbyists (or, more properly, advertisers) within free-to-air radio in this time. The bolshie 'let's look after each other' vibe of the 80s is nowhere to be found now (Triple J, maybe). (that said) Thank you so much for a lovely year. Thank you for Fridays of innocent joy, a bit of zen & cheeky chancers! I hope the PhD has bobbled along at a surprisingly valiant pace. And a very happy new year - and lots more tiramisu - in 2024! 🎉 (And thank you *very* *much* for the creative triggers!) 😄

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

@@nbell63 That's very interesting, I'll make a note to try to find the Background Briefing investigation. If you happen to have a link let me know. Oh I have a lot of respect for you studying environmental science and am very curious about what that led you to do after that (I have an email for my channel listed under the "about" section if you'd like to discuss more). It's always been a goal of mine to do more work on environmental sustainability and related areas. Thank you for always being a lovely supporter of my channel and for all of the amazing comments. All of your kind words always mean a lot and I hope you have a wonderful start to your new year! More bird chaos and cuteness to come soon! 🐣

Bi

Lmao get rekt Wurundjeri people, Australians own 'your' land now

@This-thing-here

6 ай бұрын

You really woke up and decided to be a cringe edge lord

@chir0pter

6 ай бұрын

​@@This-thing-here Pure projection, of course the real cringe is 'land acknowledgements'

@This-thing-here

6 ай бұрын

@@chir0pter You clearly don't understand what that word means. You're either 12 or a boomer that fell for reactionry content and propaganda made for Americans. I bet you use the word "woke" unironically too, ay?

Tremendous downgrade from Sacred Ibis to Bin Chicken. They’re beautiful, though. Thank you and have a happy spiked tiramisu day, awesome (not) crazy bird lady!

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

Thank you and Happy New Year!!! ❤🎉

@joetrollson

6 ай бұрын

Have a Happy New Year too,@@BackyardBirdsofAustralia !

BIN CHICKEN IS BEST CHICKEN, ALL OTHER CHICKENS ARE INFERIOR!

Flying sheep LOL 🍺🤣 Happy New Year! from the "other" Land of Oz (Kansas 🐃🌾🌪🌈🥿)

@BackyardBirdsofAustralia

6 ай бұрын

Happy New Year!!! ❤🎉