Pied currawong - Strepera graculina 

They are great! They are real comedians, and often put on a big clown show at dusk, whooping and whistling and whisking here and there very energetically. I like them a lot.

Liked the peewee refereeing the fight. Those little birds are not afraid of anything. That includes crocodiles.

I quite like currawongs, despite my grandads constant bemoaning of them. They're quite interesting birds and I can't help planting trees that produce berries they like.

I love their beautiful whistling sound.

I love the Currawong's call, and how each population has it's own song, varying from haunting to blissful. The population in south-east Toowoomba where I used to live years ago had a beautifully soothing song, hearing the whole lot of them ring out and echo through the foggy suburban hills on a chilly September morning is one of the reasons I loved living in that area.

That footage at the end is hilarious. They seem more paranoid about their surroundings than each other!

I've almost gained the trust of one particular currawong that eats the berries off the cycads that are in the front of my house. My front yard is like a ufc arena for currawongs though. Almost daily fights almost those guys 😅

I live in Toowoomba on Mount Lofty and while i am now in my 80,s I have been around the Currswongs here most of my life . They are clowns . There is a family of 24 birds that live in my area and they are at times all in my at yard at once . They love to play in trees that offer a large canopy . I offer them two water points in my yard which are made of concrete but very shallow. During hot weather they will stand in the water and bathe . They sre offered fresh clean water every day ...My curraeongs are spoilt as they enjoy a little beef mince to eat . They share my area mainly with pee wee , green cat birds , a range of psrrot and honey ester species and a satin bower bird that had been here some years now spendng much time building a new bower or repairing an old Bower. Our lives would be very dull without birds in Australia...

This is the first time I even heard about these birds! Very cute and fascinating creatures! 💖

Currawong is at the bottom in my backyard among magpie, noisy miner, pigeon and crested pigeon. Magpie is the boss follow by pigeon, crested pigeon, miner. Currawong is timid and sneaky

I have 2 that show up at mine. Since they are smart enough not to brawl for the food like the magpies and kookaburras, they catch the food I throw mid air. It's cool as, I purposefully throw the food up high for them and they know when I am about to do it.

My pet/wild currawong is called Garbo. It comes with it's mate every day.

The currawongs and magpies in my yard all get along, except for the crows, they gang up on the crows

Excellent footage and explanation! I learned a lot and lol at the fight with pauses at the end

That was fascinating, thank you.

in Portarlinton at an outdoor cafe, this large bird jumped onto the table in front of me and squarked at me. I’d only arrived and had nothing to offer. I think it was a currawong. I read they can be aggressive at picnics.

Son unas aves preciosas!!! Buen video!

They look like the grackles of Australia 🦘. Beautiful 😍.

The ones that come to feed in my back yard in central Victoria are grey, with white under their tails, so are different to the ones in your film here, I think. I love them! They look like very intelligent birds, with beautiful eyes, but their eyes appear to be more silvery than the ones you showed here. Could this just be the effect of the light, perhaps, because surely their eye color is the same for both Pied & Grey? They have the same kind of fierce looking head as the ones that you filmed, but they are so quirky & character-filled. We also get sulphur-crested cockatoos, mynah birds - both native & Asian, ravens, blue-masked honey-eaters, butcher birds (wonderful, intelligent eyes), magpies, peewees, rainbow lorikeets, occasional sparrows, galahs, doves & pigeons, wild ducks, wattle birds, & no doubt I’ve forgotten some. They are all my favourites - all wild - & I live in the suburbs. Kookaburras live nearby, but don’t come to my backyard to feed. We have wonderful birds in Australia - both the native & the introduced.

We don't get these in WA and I'm jealous hahah

Wow, yeah I've been around currawongs on and off for 40 years and I can't ever remember seeing one bathe.

It literally looks like a Pied Butcherbird stuck together with a Currawong Bruh

If they could stop this infighting and the hate toward each other, then who knows what they could achieve.?

Fantastic video

Excellent video!

Really enjoyed this video. I learned a lot and the quality of the footage was excellent. Would like to see more like this maybe about the Australian Magpie. They are different from the Magpies we have in UK. Ours are Corvids, yours are not. But yours make a lovely noise and are quite comical in their play. Edit: just found your video on the Magpie and the Butcher Bird!

Get reeaal . . . get reeaal . . . get reeaal . . . get reeaal . . .

Never saw a currawong in my life until one day I managed to capture a magpie that had wiring trapped around both its legs and freed it of the wiring but it had lost a toe because of how tight it was wrapped around its foot and she has remained crippled since. The magpie comes back with her husband (I assume 😂) every day and they wait at the back door patiently for us to feed them as the crippled magpie can’t get around very easily. But ever since we started feeding them the backyard has been swarming with currawong & crows trying to swoop in and steal what we throw to her. She’s gradually getting better and starting to walk/limp a bit but it’s so annoying trying to give her food & watching her get swooped by other birds 😢

I have a wild pet currawong that comes and I feed him grapes I called him strawberry’s he use to eat strawberry’s but now he eats grapes.

Nice video, thank you. The fight appears highly ritualised, not really hurting each other.

Not fighting there mating 😂

“Fighting” methinks is more prelude to mating.

Does anybody know why they regurgitate back into the water i give them ?

I see currawongs by themselves most of the year but around now (August) they seem to have little gatherings where they swoop and call repeatedly. Do you know what that's about?

What is the birds name. I don’t think you mentioned it.

The Peewee didn't like them fightig.

Would be good to get some bird song instead of the jolly ditty

It’s a pity that you didn’t tape them singing.

Why do you have to ruin your own video with music? Can't you records Currawong calls?

stupid creators need to shove music everywhere