Australian Birds

[caskur]

I haven't heard it's illegal to keep our birds as pets.... and even if it was, I wouldn't "obey" the law.





I found a twenty eight parrot with a history... I found its owner 3 months later by ringing up a talkback radio station.





15 years ago, I wrote all these beautiful short stories about my birds, (I have heaps of great stories) to an MSN journal and the journal was taken off me... so now I don't put any effort into writing on sites.

Some birds are exempt from native species protection legislation...but they still should not be in cages.

Yes. Every animal in enclosures should be house humanely and not in the tiny cages they used in the old days..



You know an enclosure is good if the animals breed and raise young.



Have you ever seen our beautiful native birds inhumanely enclosed in terrible cages in India?



The other thing to is Ozzie birds environments are shrinking due to the shrinking crown land areas being sold off to immigrants.





If humans keep going the way they are globally... the only safe place for any animals will be in a zoo and we must stop that happening by objecting STRONGLY.





Tomorrow I get NBN... they changed the date on me. I do have their new modem though. I hope everything goes smoothly tomorrow.

[Anonymous]

Some bird shots from the Summer.

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Beautiful pictures TheVancouverGuy.

 

[Anonymous]

The kakapo is from New Zealand, not Australia., but I thought this unusual parrot deserved mention..



It doesn't fly, it's the heaviest parrot and there are only 148 left in the wild.

[Bricktop]

A nice one of a magpie taking flight...



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[Vancouver]

Beautiful bird. Are you using the 75-300mm on m4/3? The 2x crop must be nice for birds.

[Bricktop]

A couple of gulls...

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[Anonymous]

A couple of gulls...

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They are not my favourite bird to see, but I love that picture.

[Bricktop]

Beautiful bird. Are you using the 75-300mm on m4/3? The 2x crop must be nice for birds.

No. I'm using the 40-150mm 2.8 Pro, with a 1.4X teleconverter.



I've found that it is increasingly difficult to hand hold a lens over 300mm due to camera shake. Even though my setup gives me 400mm, the Olympus kit is extremely light when compared to, say, a Nikon D700 with a Nikon 400 F2.8. And very much less expensive. It's not a featherweight, but it gives me a FF equivalent of 80-300mm at 2.8, and 100-400mm at 3.5. No FF lens can do that.



The results are indistinguishable. That, of course, reduces in lower light, because the small sensor will struggle when the light is low. But who takes pictures in low light?

[Bricktop]

They are not my favourite bird to see, but I love that picture.

They aren't a favourite for me either...but I need to get in some practice with my new equipment, and so seagulls offer a great opportunity to hone skills without worrying about finding the subject. And they are a photogenic bird...even if they are noisy and intrusive, and make a mess.



You don't need to worry about scaring them away!!!

[Bricktop]

Galah takes flight...



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[Anonymous]

Galah takes flight...



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Are galahs a type of cockatoo?

[caskur]

And apparently, they are a dove, not a pigeon.

Same thing apparently..



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[Bricktop]

That would explain it then!!!

[Bricktop]

Are galahs a type of cockatoo?

Yes.

[Vancouver]

Some kind of an owl

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