If she thinks magpies are dinosaurs, then I’d have liked to hear her reaction to sulphur-crested cockatoos.
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I think that one is universal: “■■■■■■■ noisy bastards!”
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Yes, I have lots of other ‘favourite’ birds, but magpies do make me smile. Also, I think they engage more than any other wild bird - around here anyway. The way young ones especially will come up when you are in the garden and coc.k their head with eye contact like a pet dog, as if to ask “got a spare worm?”. It’s really talking to yourself I spose, but because they engage so much I talk to them more than any other bird.
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The first time a flock flew over the house, again “What the f**k is that?!”
Actually, that would be the number one wildlife related question she’s asked since she’s been here…
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Or a cassowary.
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If we’re talking shitbirds, my nomination would those screeching, swooping, spur-winged, aggressive bastard plovers.
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Evil, evil looking creatures.
WSPTU
Especially when their nest is near.
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Just the other day I learned the name casuarina comes from the name cassowary, because the foliage of the genus is like the feathers of the bird. Might have been on gardening Australia???
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I kind of admire the defensive plovers. (Because their ‘attack’ isn’t really that - they don’t go after you if you aren’t a threat to their young - same with Maggie’s.) Hooded plovers nest on beaches in south Gippy, so there are times and places where no dogs are allowed and/or not off lead.
If you have ever walked trout rivers in NZ, you will have seen Paradise (‘Parry’) duck parents flapping away (from their young) pretending to be lame/unable to fly, to draw the threat (you) away. A different way to defend, and amazing to see.
I’ve seen plovers do this too. The old “broken wing” trick to lure you away.
I sometimes think of them as “Golden Shower Birds”. P - lovers. Yeah, I know. 
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This is Patchy, taken just now in my yard.
(S)he is a little special, I think. Her parents are quite hostile towards her.
Loudly introduced herself in about March this year with half a toe missing and a droopy wing.
Recently she has taken to wandering in to the house and warbling, screaming and pee-weeing at enormous volume in enclosed space.
Yes, I know you’re not meant to feed them. She only gets one dog food pellet thing in the morning and one on the afternoon. She’s not dependant and is able to hunt and forage, albeit hilariously incompetently.
Edit: is there a bird thread? I neglected to post this in the form of a dumb question…
Can anybody tell me what type of cat is pictured here?
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Blitz. Is there nothing that isn’t covered?
Except the place that shall not be named, of course.
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The Royal?
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No, that’s “should not”
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@theDJR
Did we miss St. Essington’s Day?
I’m guessing not, because it might be technically possible for two of Geelong, Gold Coast, Hawthorn and Fremantle to not win another game for the year, and for the Bulldogs to only win one more.
Tricky to figure out the day this year, but it might have been yesterday?
Might be on a day this round?
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I’m sorry, you seem to have mistaken me for someone who gives a ■■■■.
I did provide plenty of coverage of the VFLW possibility before our miraculous win last week reversed the apparent inevitable.
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My apologies. I thought you were the site’s biggest pedant on the topic.
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I do tend to point out people that are obviously hysterical and not mathematically correct*.
But I have no idea what AFL round it is, let alone the rest. I see the ladder when I’m death-riding, but don’t look up there.
*the best kind of correct
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