This was super cool, I just moved to Johannesburg and there are quite a few hopping about on the treetops. Never see these in Durban so they fascinate me, thanks for the awesome video!
We have a pair of grey-crested louries that hang out in trees around our house. I have a bird feeding station on the verandah wall where I can see the birds flying in to feed at my Bird Buffet. The louries are guests who particularly enjoy eating bananas. I am happy to provide them.
Hi there, yes they do have different alarm calls, especially for areal predictors for example birds of prey, leopard or a snake on the ground. Even when they see a squirrel on a tree, they do give a different alarm call.
I found a baby go away bird on the road near my school and cars we’re swerving around it so I took it home and when it gets older we are going to release it in a much safer area
Oh wow a future conservationist I see, well good on you for removing it off the road. Maybe try take it to a animal center so that they check the bird also look around where you found it, to see if you can not see the mother around there or see the nest.
I imagine they got the name 'go away bird' from when the English-speakers came into the picture. What do the true natives call the bird? What interesting details do they have to tell about this bird? Do people keep them as pets or livestock?
Hi there, thank you for your comment. Maybe it was a go away bird to the native people? Maybe they told the English -speaking group the name? Most stories told are from the natives, look at it this way. You walk into a place and see things and start calling them names because of what you see? would you not ask, what this is? and what is it used for?. Well keeping birds as pets would some how mess with their life cycle, and back in the days people preferred to hunt instead.
@@EcoTraining I thought it was called "go away" bird because the sound it made sounded like it was saying "go away" (which, of course, is English). SO I was thinking it would be called "go away" to English-speakers, but native people would have already named it something else generations prior when they first noticed the bird. White people have a way of redesigning history, so I want to make sure I'm hearing the accurate narrative.
@@jgunn03 Why don't you go and speak to the natives directly and ask them for yourself? If you're obviously not interested in what nature conservationists with background, training and education have to say about this bird because their skins are white why do you even watch this programme? Especially when the technology being used to film, video and upload is also western technology and not originally used by the natives. I mean you could see from the beginning that the woman presenting was white. You obviously have no interest in nature or conservation but are just an idiot making an asinine, puerile and vacuous comment to get some attention.
