Just my sense of humour - but that long drawn-out note reminded me of the odd habit (mainly US) to end each sentence with a question mark. Was the little guy a bit unsure of what he was warbling about? 🤔🙂
Thank you! I love these little guys. My pair have started bringing their baby to my garden for mealworms recently too, they are such dedicated parents!
It seems such a good idea to have a more inconspicuous female, if she is the one that has nesting duties. Baffling, however, to have the situation reversed in some species. Really very interesting, thank you
So lamellae basically outside the interior of the beak (mouth) or not hidden when the beak is closed. Well I also searched up and realized that other birds like waterfowl (especially pronounced in northern shovelers) and flamingos have such traits as well, and they're kind of akin to the baleen plates of krill-feeding baleen whales, a group of one of my favorite animals other than birds. It's interesting how specific beak structures and features play a role in how different birds obtain their food.
The robins are such special little birds. Always serious looking but they sing such happy songs. Got a video lined up for two day's time of a robin singing in my garden.
What an elegant predatory bird. Whilst the bill is very different, their shape and movement do resemble the stork. The bird showed great determination to devour the frog- admirable from the bird's point of view, pretty miserable prolonged time for the frog
I've heard they are in the Western Cape now. I've seen them in East London and Graaff-Reinet and knew it was just a matter of time before they move further south and west. I've also heard they are in PE now too.
Thank you - that was heavenly. How about something similar at the sea with gulls screeching and whatever other birds might oblige? But anyway, this is truly lovely
Great idea! Only problem is the waves are so loud when I record there that it often drowns out the bird song but I will try at very low tide. My microphone is extremely sensitive and picks up even the slightest sounds, so waves crashing on the shore sound extra loud.
Interesting, I know there are pied wagtails in the northern hemisphere. I wonder if there song sounds similar to these African Pied Wagtails. I must google it and see.
@@lynetterudmanPied wagtails in the northern hemisphere (Mostly Eurasia) are just another name for white wagtails, mostly applied to the British Isles subspecies M. a. yarrellii, the males of which having completely black-and-white (pied) plumage unlike other subspecies of the white wagtail with the exception of lugens, leucopsis, and alboides, though these Asian subspecies have less black or dark grey than the one mainly called pied wagtail.
Where I live, the UAE also has some introduced birds you mentioned in this and previous video in common like the house crow, rose-ringed parakeet, and common myna, particularly abundant in pretty much all urban areas (cities like Dubai, Sharjah, etc) of the country. However, the house crow native range in the video shows the UAE as part of it while they aren't native there. The house sparrows and rock doves (in cities mainly feral ones) that are introduced to where you live are very common native birds in UAE. Mallards are some uncommon native waterfowl also present in the UAE especially in winter, and common starlings, which I never have seen here, are also some of the wintering songbirds of UAE.
@@lynetterudman Though I am not sure exactly how, they're particularly used to these temperatures and even pant a lot with their beaks open at times. In terms of how they manage to stay hydrated, some of the birds I mentioned kind of get enough water from the food they eat, but regarding the pigeons and parakeets, they're able to get their water wherever they find (which can be quite a challenge), and there are also water bowls for birds, especially pigeons that would drink from them, some people put out in areas of cities. There are also parks and irrigated grass areas where there are sprinklers for watering grass activated anytime also providing a source of water birds can drink and bathe on to stay clean and cool. This is what I can tell based on my observations. Otherwise, not sure of any other ways birds implement on surviving typical extreme summer heat in the UAE.
Hullo Luv....I am just wondering if there is any chance of one obtaining a CD or some recordings of bird calls U've perhaps done on your travels in South Africa...It would be a blessing and thus music to my ears, as it will definitely drain out the Cadom, Cadom I hear all weekends at my flat...😅😊😂...
Hi there, best is to tune into my RU-vid channel and let it play video after video. I don't have a CD of my calls. They are all on my RU-vid channel or on bird apps like Sasol and BirdPro.
Nature on the march. Hope the introduced feral birds don't upset the ecosystem. I live in a location on the other side of the world that has large flocks of S. African 'Love birds'. They have been around since the 1960's when a bird breeder here released them into the wild. They have survived and thrived, we now consider them native!!
The lovebirds we have in namibia are rosy-faced lovebird some of them are let free but usually found in the town in otjiwarongo or even in neighborhoods. The house sparrows are found in the neighborhoods here in otjiwarongo to usually found in neighborhoods town and at some areas where its bushy with trees n stuff. The rock doves are also here in namibia they are widespread all over otjiwarongo some owners let them free theyre also found in feeding stations but they are found only in urban areas in otjiwarongo.
Wagtails, woodpeckers, and swifts live in Europe, too. One would assume this is a natural distribution. Yet missing are such useful species as those that pluck insects off cattle, so the lack of some of the types mentioned is puzzling. Or maybe this is just a silly observation from a non-birder.
Maybe there are other species in Europe that pick ticks off cattle, like starlings? I've seen the Common Starlings do that here in SA and those starlings originated in Europe.
Thought to share this little one here... How can so many sounds come from one little bird? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vC6kf8442yI.htmlsi=-6bDAUI5Q6DHB1Wu Though, I've heard that some birds are great imitators of each other, and stands to reason, how pet caged birds learn to 'speak our language'.... Lol And then, people underestimate the intelligence of birds....
Non-birders very likely don’t think about the origins of birds that one presumes are ubiquitous- certainly the sparrow and the pigeon are simply part of the landscape everywhere. That some species were released as comparatively recent as mid nineteenth century is shocking. Like the grey squirrel that causes havoc with the existing population where it has been introduced. Thank you for another highly interesting video.
