Around these parts anyway . . .

GREEN.DEMOCRATIC.SOCIALISM.IS.THE.ONLY.ANSWER ✊✊✊

We're so poorly led . . .

They were in massive bloom attracting many invertebrates . . .

Yes!

The stars are a bronzewing pigeon and Grey Shrike-thrush with support from a White-throated Treecreeper and a final note from a Yellow-faced Honeyeater . . . and yes, there's so much to love about the sandstone country!

I do so love a good ramble through a museum collection! They reek of science, mystery and discovery and though mostly comprised of the long deceased, they live on as some of the most important players in the battle to understand and conserve this majestic Earth.

Here's a fix for the world's woes, tax every billionaire at 99 cents in the dollar on all their earnings and assets and every mega millionaire at 90 cents in the dollar.

The US is a sick and broken artefact of white supremacy, corporate greed, uneducated masses and irrational religion. Is there any wonder that it has produced a succession of leaders who treat the world as nothing more than a sewer and a "resource" with no respect for its abundant treasures?

What? . . . no price of eggs?

And when we're done with them get into the parasitic Real Estate industry.

One thing I am looking into is the possibility that these mimicry patterns and content are shared culturally rather than by just random learning from local bird populations - much in the way that Superb Lyrebirds do. More on that another time. End.

Amidst the usual incomprehensible chatter, the Yellow-throated Scrubwren mimics a number of those birds as well as the Yellow-faced Honeyeater, Eastern Whipbird and Brown Gerygone. This appears to be a behaviour to ward off intruders, so I didn't stay for too long 4/

Other bird song you can hear in this clip includes Wonga Pigeon, Satin Bowerbird, Scarlet Honeyeater, Golden Whistler, White-throated Treecreeper, Grey Fantail, Rufous Fantail, Sacred Kingfisher, Green Catbird, Rainbow Lorikeet and Little Wattlebird, to name a few 3/

Yellow throated scrubwrens are a commensal with Superb Lyrebirds, often following them around on forest floors collecting any invertebrates which they might disturb. There may be an element of mutualism in this relationship as they will warn the lyrebirds of impending danger 2/

These guys look to be second or maybe third year. Lyrebirds only lay one egg per year but the young males do have a habit of teaming up like this and practicing all their song and dance routines together. I know this trio well and sometimes have bird call comps with them.

Disgusting.