Brooke the Chooke
@chookeofnobility.bsky.social
I'm a Queenslander, a beach bum and a member of the poultry inspired nickname crowd.
I'm here to challenge thoughts and feelings towards the Australian white ibis.
https://chookeofnobility.wordpress.com
I'm here to challenge thoughts and feelings towards the Australian white ibis.
https://chookeofnobility.wordpress.com
What are your thoughts on feeding wildlife? Human food, like chips, is obviously out, but bird seed, fruit and vegetables?
The animals are here to stay in urban spaces so we need to find healthy ways of coexisting.
#australianwildlife #nativeanimals #feedingwildlife
The animals are here to stay in urban spaces so we need to find healthy ways of coexisting.
#australianwildlife #nativeanimals #feedingwildlife
When a sick possum showed up in my garden my heart overtook my head. Is it ever OK to feed urban wildlife?
When a sick possum showed up in my garden my heart overtook my head. Is it ever OK to feed urban wildlife?
While official advice is clear, it’s not a black-and-white issue, experts say. Responsibly interacting with urban wildlife may increase our compassion
Chopping vegetables in my kitchen on a winter afternoon, I was startled by the sound of rustling branches and loud coughing coming from my back yard.
I walked outside tentatively, prepared to face a fence-hopping intruder. Instead, after a few minutes of listening to evenly timed wheezes, I spotted it – a small brushtail possum, tucked behind lilly-pilly branches bowing over my fence. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
What are your thoughts on feeding wildlife? Human food, like chips, is obviously out, but bird seed, fruit and vegetables?
The animals are here to stay in urban spaces so we need to find healthy ways of coexisting.
#australianwildlife #nativeanimals #feedingwildlife
The animals are here to stay in urban spaces so we need to find healthy ways of coexisting.
#australianwildlife #nativeanimals #feedingwildlife
Ibises love food, and we know they’ll eat almost anything, but their most favourite foods include: insects and crabs and they’ve even worked out how to eat cane toads.
#Australianwhiteibis #nativebird #thenobleibis
www.redlandscoasttoday.com.au/2025/01/ibis...
#Australianwhiteibis #nativebird #thenobleibis
www.redlandscoasttoday.com.au/2025/01/ibis...
Ibises are native birds who have changed some of their native ways
As we hit prime picnic season, Redland City Council is reminding locals and visitors not to feed the “bin chickens”
www.redlandscoasttoday.com.au
August 19, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Ibises love food, and we know they’ll eat almost anything, but their most favourite foods include: insects and crabs and they’ve even worked out how to eat cane toads.
#Australianwhiteibis #nativebird #thenobleibis
www.redlandscoasttoday.com.au/2025/01/ibis...
#Australianwhiteibis #nativebird #thenobleibis
www.redlandscoasttoday.com.au/2025/01/ibis...
Did you know that the accepted plural of the ibis is ibises, the collective noun is a colony, and when in flight they are a wedge (because of the v shape they fly in)?
www.animalsandenglish.com/collective-n...
news.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/articles/ins...
#thenobleibis #ibis #nativebirds
www.animalsandenglish.com/collective-n...
news.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/articles/ins...
#thenobleibis #ibis #nativebirds
August 18, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Did you know that the accepted plural of the ibis is ibises, the collective noun is a colony, and when in flight they are a wedge (because of the v shape they fly in)?
www.animalsandenglish.com/collective-n...
news.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/articles/ins...
#thenobleibis #ibis #nativebirds
www.animalsandenglish.com/collective-n...
news.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/articles/ins...
#thenobleibis #ibis #nativebirds
Reposted by Brooke the Chooke
Dinner time here in Australia. 🍽️😋🇦🇺
Ibis in a low tide lagoon. Seafood is on the menu.
🐦🌊🏖️ 🦞🐚
Sweet dreams, world. 😴✨🌍
#birds #birdphotography #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography #naturephotography #birding #birdwatching #birdwatchers #Canon #R5 #Australia
Ibis in a low tide lagoon. Seafood is on the menu.
🐦🌊🏖️ 🦞🐚
Sweet dreams, world. 😴✨🌍
#birds #birdphotography #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography #naturephotography #birding #birdwatching #birdwatchers #Canon #R5 #Australia
August 12, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Dinner time here in Australia. 🍽️😋🇦🇺
Ibis in a low tide lagoon. Seafood is on the menu.
🐦🌊🏖️ 🦞🐚
Sweet dreams, world. 😴✨🌍
#birds #birdphotography #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography #naturephotography #birding #birdwatching #birdwatchers #Canon #R5 #Australia
Ibis in a low tide lagoon. Seafood is on the menu.
🐦🌊🏖️ 🦞🐚
Sweet dreams, world. 😴✨🌍
#birds #birdphotography #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography #naturephotography #birding #birdwatching #birdwatchers #Canon #R5 #Australia
That one time I went to Egypt ... well, I scrapbooked my photos. Here's one of my favourite spreads featuring me on the right on top of Marvin the camel (the name I appointed my steed). Background images I cut from an Egyptian encyclopaedia.
#Egypt #Travel #Thoth #thenobleibis
#Egypt #Travel #Thoth #thenobleibis
August 15, 2025 at 2:41 AM
That one time I went to Egypt ... well, I scrapbooked my photos. Here's one of my favourite spreads featuring me on the right on top of Marvin the camel (the name I appointed my steed). Background images I cut from an Egyptian encyclopaedia.
#Egypt #Travel #Thoth #thenobleibis
#Egypt #Travel #Thoth #thenobleibis
Reposted by Brooke the Chooke
Today's happiness: This 4thC BC faience polychrome #Egyptian #ibis is taking Thursday as it comes @metmuseum - which says the artist 'beautifully captured the halting stride of the bird, which seems to be considering its every step'.
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
October 26, 2023 at 2:23 PM
Today's happiness: This 4thC BC faience polychrome #Egyptian #ibis is taking Thursday as it comes @metmuseum - which says the artist 'beautifully captured the halting stride of the bird, which seems to be considering its every step'.
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
Thoth - Egyptian god of Wisdom, creator of writing, head of an ibis. This is my kind of god.
See how legendary the ibis is? While the Australian white ibis is an Aussie native, it's pretty cool to have a distant cousin this epic.
Image courtesy of The Hunt Museum
www.huntmuseum.com/stories/obje...
See how legendary the ibis is? While the Australian white ibis is an Aussie native, it's pretty cool to have a distant cousin this epic.
Image courtesy of The Hunt Museum
www.huntmuseum.com/stories/obje...
August 15, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Thoth - Egyptian god of Wisdom, creator of writing, head of an ibis. This is my kind of god.
See how legendary the ibis is? While the Australian white ibis is an Aussie native, it's pretty cool to have a distant cousin this epic.
Image courtesy of The Hunt Museum
www.huntmuseum.com/stories/obje...
See how legendary the ibis is? While the Australian white ibis is an Aussie native, it's pretty cool to have a distant cousin this epic.
Image courtesy of The Hunt Museum
www.huntmuseum.com/stories/obje...
On a trip to @australiazoo.bsky.social a few years ago, a friend and I saw this beautiful Australian glossy ibis. It’s so much smaller than the white ibis, but has that same signature long beak and slow, deliberate walk. #glossyibis #nativebird #australianwildlife #longbeaknobility #thenobleibis
August 11, 2025 at 6:07 AM
On a trip to @australiazoo.bsky.social a few years ago, a friend and I saw this beautiful Australian glossy ibis. It’s so much smaller than the white ibis, but has that same signature long beak and slow, deliberate walk. #glossyibis #nativebird #australianwildlife #longbeaknobility #thenobleibis
Reposted by Brooke the Chooke
Australian White Ibis (L) and Straw Necked Ibis both seen in the Sydney area, The White at the Coolart Wetlands where there is a breeding colony, and the Straws at the Golf Course across from the Novotel Sydney Airport Hotel they put us in when our flight was canceled. #birds
October 10, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Australian White Ibis (L) and Straw Necked Ibis both seen in the Sydney area, The White at the Coolart Wetlands where there is a breeding colony, and the Straws at the Golf Course across from the Novotel Sydney Airport Hotel they put us in when our flight was canceled. #birds
Did you know that the Australian white ibis (you might have heard it called some kind of chicken), or the noble ibis as I refer to them, is one of three species of ibis native to Australia ... yes, native.
research.csiro.au/ewkrwaterbir...
research.csiro.au/ewkrwaterbir...
Australia's ibis- What’s the difference? - Waterbird breeding & movements
Have you ever seen an ibis? Perhaps you know them affectionately as ‘bin chicken’. What if I told you there […]
research.csiro.au
August 11, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Did you know that the Australian white ibis (you might have heard it called some kind of chicken), or the noble ibis as I refer to them, is one of three species of ibis native to Australia ... yes, native.
research.csiro.au/ewkrwaterbir...
research.csiro.au/ewkrwaterbir...