I’ve no doubt that’s true! I always get that wrong.
Little Raven is the ‘town crow’ in Melbourne and Adelaide.
Australian Raven in Perth, Canberra and Sydney.
Torresian Crow in Brisbane and Darwin.
Forest Raven only corvid in Tasmania (except King Island where Little Raven also occurs).
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Here is a simple way to tell the difference.
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Yes! You’ve stirred an old memory there. I also read the Deltora Quest books. I had forgotten about that. I really enjoyed them.
How about Minecraft?
Haven’t played computer games since leisuresuit Larry on floppy disc in the 80s!
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Norad zeer!
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Ha! I was thinking more from the kids side 
Away in the van. Got a family of magpies that have adopted me into the family 
There is about 7 of them and mostly younger birds. The mum has got her hands full.
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So I was out looking for a bee swarm that I’d got a false alarm on, and there were some cockies chewing up the grass in a roadside reserve. One of them looks at me and wanders over intently. Has an exploratory attempt to chew the smooth top of my boot. Then decides it might get better purchase on the overlap at a seam. If I’d not gone ‘OI!’ and stepped back, I reckon it might have made progress on the leather . Totally fearless. When I bailed out and went to cross the road, the cockie waddled to the edge of the grass. I was a bit worried it would follow me and get tangled in traffic. But it teetered on the edge before rejoining it’s less inquisitive mates.
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It took fifty years, but I finally got swooped by a magpie.
Another reason not to return to Mackay.
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I had plovers swooping me yesterday, which seems late in the year for such behaviour.
Photo is terrible but this eastern spinebill was feeding in a Xmas bush. Normally I watch this bird feeding on grevillea flowers. But on this bush, it seems the foliage made it hard to perch/hang on a branch and sip normally, so it was hovering briefly like a clumsy hummingbird to feed. I didn’t know they did that. I tried to get a photo of that action, but they just didn’t come out! The pic is when it was resting between ‘hovers’.
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Also, the missus just pointed out that there was a sea eagle above the tree line, just as we walked past this rock. I really wanted to get a pic of the bird with this rock in the foreground, but in all honesty even close eagles flying come up as blurry little shapes. And it went out of view as I fumbled the phone into life, anyway.
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I think this is a gannet? I’ve found it difficult to get a shot that I liked / considered sharp. They don’t seem to have a lot of fine detail in their feathers, possibly due to water repellent down?
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