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Title: Amazing footage - and in our back yard! Gotta love Australia
Post by: albyback1 on February 09, 2012, 08:23:22 AM

Budgerigars search for food and water in the outback of Australia. They fly in small flocks which gradually join other flocks of budgies, allowing their numbers to grow in the thousands!!

A BBC presentation that is just stunning!

enjoy

Earthflight - Budgerigars fly past Uluru to form Super Swarms (Narrated by David Tennant) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyfCMrqitWI#ws)

Title: Re: Amazing footage - and in our back yard! Gotta love Australia
Post by: Xfigio on February 09, 2012, 08:40:50 AM

This from late last year, not local but also amazing.

Murmuration (http://vimeo.com/31158841) from Sophie Windsor Clive (http://vimeo.com/user3069761) on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com).</p>

Title: Re: Amazing footage - and in our back yard! Gotta love Australia
Post by: areyonga on February 09, 2012, 08:47:45 AM

Gota luv the budgies in the centre, used to see them a lot when I was doing bush work out of Alice.  Will be back there in a few weeks and staying at Kings Canyon for a month so will hopefully see some more flocks.

Title: Re: Amazing footage - and in our back yard! Gotta love Australia
Post by: krisandkev on February 09, 2012, 11:47:12 AM

Love the Budgerigars .  I remember our first trip and we were so excited to see them in the wild.  Thanks for the link.   :cup:
The following link is not as exciting, but we just love the Lorikeets and watching them come into our yard to feed on our Ice-cream Bean trees.  It is amazing how many times they have a feed and fly straight into one of our windows.  They just fly off again.  I know the noise they make drives some people mad, we love it!  (The noise in the back ground is one of our friendly pheasants.)  Yep, just love the outdoors and the birds and animals.   ;D

Scaly-breasted and Rainbow Lorikeets movie.wmv (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBHvFEkFSaI#ws)

Title: Re: Amazing footage - and in our back yard! Gotta love Australia
Post by: gadgetman on February 09, 2012, 12:36:53 PM

Makes me guilty keeping a few of them budgies in a cage

Title: Re: Amazing footage - and in our back yard! Gotta love Australia
Post by: cruisindub on February 10, 2012, 02:08:32 AM

Sadly, the red tailked black cockatoo is endangered....

http://www.redtail.com.au/pdfs/protection.pdf (http://www.redtail.com.au/pdfs/protection.pdf)

Title: Re: Amazing footage - and in our back yard! Gotta love Australia
Post by: UTE 701 on February 10, 2012, 07:23:04 AM

Gotta love the Birds of Australia .....

(http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/ae110/shootnrun_photos/Outback2010/wIMG_4525.jpg)  (http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/ae110/shootnrun_photos/Outback2010/wIMG_4539.jpg)

(http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/ae110/shootnrun_photos/Outback2010/wIMG_4437.jpg)  (http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/ae110/shootnrun_photos/Outback2010/wIMG_4423.jpg)

(http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/ae110/shootnrun_photos/Outback2010/wIMG_6404.jpg)  (http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/ae110/shootnrun_photos/Outback2010/wIMG_4850.jpg)

(http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/ae110/shootnrun_photos/Outback2010/wIMG_5548.jpg)  (http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/ae110/shootnrun_photos/Outback2010/wIMG_6556.jpg)

Title: Re: Amazing footage - and in our back yard! Gotta love Australia
Post by: Barrabart on February 10, 2012, 08:01:00 AM

Don't care what anyone says........... with all the high tech sci-fi special effects you see in the movies etc........... none of it even comes close as far as the wow factor is concerned, when compared to a special feature presented by ol' Mum Nature. :cup: