Rainbow Lorikeets 

Most nature docs will just say "this species is native to australia" and completely neglect that australia is a massive place where native animals can become pests elsewhere. I admire how thoroughly you explain everything in these videos while keeping it entertaining! Keep up the good work

My favourite bird in the whole wide world.

They're beautiful little bastards, that's for sure.

Fuck yeah Lorikeets.

I crashed my car leaving the handbreak off last month trying to save a lorikeet stuck in the middle of the road, couldn't fly away. It's nice to get an answer for why it couldn't get away.

I've experienced a few wild lorikeets with the paralysis syndrome, usually on the first day of encountering them they are unable to properly fly anymore, can tell something is wrong when approaching the lorikeet because it can only either hop away on the ground like a kangaroo or it starts to try and climb up a nearby tree. On first day they still have some strength to fight back but by 2nd day their health has deteriorated rapidly not able to move much and eyes keep closing like they are sleeping. The ones I've met with the condition don't live much more then a few days to a week at most but they would of likely caught this sickness a long while before, and since the lorikeets try not to show their illness it's hard to spot the sick ones until it's too late. I notice some wild lorikeets that close their eyes in same way, it's not a sleeping type, cause when they close their eyes they still twitch and not relaxed. The Lorikeet group will isolate and avoid this sick one, maybe this is early symptoms to the sickness

I absolutely love our continent's gaggle of feathered chaos demons and the Rainbow Lorikeet is no exception. I actually like waking up to their cacophony in the morning.

Thanks for that. Things I didn’t know. I have some that come to my window because I feed some back yard buddies. I mixture of all types. These Loris are very bossy and let me know when the feed has run out with loud screeches. I make a special mixture with fruit, vegetables and assorted grains as well as rice. Mostly the Currawongs, Australian Minor and Pigeons eat it as well as Crows and other species. They all seem to be healthy. Though the Pigeons who would eat anything tend to be the ones that become unwell with disease. The beak and feather disease is apparent in Sydney Cockatoos and some Corella’s. Very sad that. So feeding platforms are a no. A table could be a platform so hygiene is very important just like your own kitchen.

You should do one on our most dangerous spiders because most people don't realise it's more likely for you to die from being struck by lightning this year than to die from a spider bite.

Lorries love getting drunk. Dew and rain collects in the throat of some flowers and ferments the nectar and you can see these crazy little bastards getting pissed and arguing the point with each other. i love 'em

If your actually from australia, you know that you see more of the introduced Indian minor bird than any other bird

Wow. That “soory bru “ was spot on 😑

A few years ago I came across one sitting in our wire fence. I went close to get a photo then realised something was wrong. It was having balancing issues. It was so weak I was able to pick it up and put it in a cardboard box. I rang the wildlife carers but before they could arrive it died. I think it was paralysis disease. So sad.

I've seen laurikeets beat crows, cockatoos and gineafoul in fights.

ever been bombed by a Lorikeet ball? I was walking down the property when there was an unholy cacophony of screeching and flapping overhead in the trees. I stopped to see what was going on, when suddenly a soccer ball size clump of Lorikeets came tumbling down, clawing and biting and screeching, almost right on top of me. They landed on the ground at my feet, the ball broke up and they flew away, must have been 8 or so of them. I later asked that well known ornithologist, Professor Laurie Keats, if this was typical behaviour, and he replied that it was not unknown for parrots to become so intent on, as it is known in ornithological circles, "beating the crap out of each other" that they become unaware of their surroundings, sometimes to the detriment of their safety, and that of those nearby - I was certainly in need of a Bex and a good lie down, I can tell you!

Another great video mate... looking forward to seeing the next one and learning something new 🙂

I've always liked Rainbow Lorikeets (I'm from NSW it's okay), but this video may have made me love them

10/10 video. Jokes are top notch

man i fucking love every one of ur uploads please make more content !!! L:D

Rainbow Lorries also get drunk. Yep you heard me right. Drunk on sugar cane I heard.

I was just walking by a tree in the Perth CBD, and a tree right beside the station was absolutely full of them chirping. I stood there for a moment to watch them and enjoy the sight. This was maybe an hour ago. Really great to see them doing so well in the absolute centre of the nation's fourth largest city.

thanks henez

hell yeah

Might I request the best of the birbs the mighty zebra finch

Pie floater with a VB? You're either from Victoria or South Australia, and god abandon those holes long ago.

My aunt has a pet lorikeet. His name is Paulie and he likes to imitate people. He imitates calling the dog, phone calls, and when my aunt smokes a bong, he not only imitates the sound of the bong, but also specifically imitates her cough afterward. He also imitates her laugh even when it devolves into coughing.

the amount of excitement when I see a new backyard naturalist viddy drops >>>

The bird:🥰 The bird's call: 👹 Love the Lorikeets

Ah, the rainbow mafia. Another great video :)

The picture of the lorikeet with a gun got me

It bears repeating that if you want to feed native birds you do it by planting native trees.

Threw in every nickname but the flying fruit tingle.

My lori is my best mate. Except when he isn't. He's an excellent mimic, I'm training him to whistle the Italian national anthem. He makes me laugh so much he has copied my laugh perfectly. He also swears like a fkn sailor.

As a wildlife carer we used to call these birds "Flying Boltcutters", they'll bite you and then make eye contact and bite harder...scary hard.

Darcy mate! You made it happen!! Thank you so much. Love seeing these shrieking rainbows in my back yard.

6:25 I'm in QLD, about 3 weeks ago I had to take a Lori to the vet, it wasn't able to fly and wasn't able to walk properly. Still put up a good fight when I put it in the box though, hope the little guy is alright. Doesn't sound good though :(

My Buddy and his untrustworthy Missus decided to amp up his relationship with me this year. He said, "If I land on you're head, I want sunflower seeds. If I land on your shoulder, I want sunflower seeds and if I land on your screen door and whistle for thirty minutes, I want sunflower seeds." Apparently sunflower seeds are his favourite because if I feed him other seeds, he gives me the bird, (pun intended) and disappears for several days. Picky bloody eater. Awesome job, Darcy ... and the Oscar goes to, The Backyard Naturalist. Yay.

My weirdo lori is 17 this year he's an odd animal still rolls around on his back in my hand and plays like a kitten, definitely not a pet to have if you don't know how to discipline them. They're wild ones where I live now too since the bushfires, don't make anywhere near as much noise as cockatoo's

The Rainbow Lorikeet. Arguably the cutest and most annoying alarm clock in existence. The soundtrack to most Aussie's mornings across the country.

Woohoo, another video from our Aussie Attenborough. ❤

Rarer than an Eshay with a valid train ticket ........gold!

The second Tassie hybrid Lori is giving Rainbow Paddlepop

I notice the red, blue and yellow all camouflage well too. When they're feeding on nectar the red and yellow often blends in with flowers and shrubs, and blue with the sky!

“Confetti conquistadors have colonised this continent.” Fantastic writing.

Ah. Glad they pissed off and didn't hang around my little sparrow feeder, then. I think they dropped in only to cause some biffo. They'd brawl with sparrows and spotted doves like crazy, hardly even go near the feeder, then leave again. Thanks again for another great video!

My hand raised female rainbow Lorikeet lived for 30 years and had a vocabulary of around 6 / 8 words

How could you omit that just like they typical Aussie, they get drunk off fermented fruit! What a missed opportunity! 😅🍹

‘Their customer-facing parts’ had me cackling

East coast pls stop sending birds. If I get woken up at 4am one more time I'm going to invent a recipe for corella noodle soup.

Omg dude, cackled at "sorry bro" 🇳🇿❤️🇦🇺

Fun fact: rainbow lorikeet screeching is just whale song sped up Rainbow 🌈Lorikeets in slow motion ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vzOzguiwgQM.html

every summer all i ever hear is lorikeets in my back garden, its great. i have wattlebirds and ravens living in my garden too and theyre all always bickering, endless entertainment

Another fun vid bro. There's a local Lori flock of 50 odd, that fly over my house every afternoon. When the setting sun hits them their colours come alive and it's so beautiful to watch...bit bloody noisy though lol

Every year I bird proof my fruit trees, every year they get in ! If I ever want to break into a bank safe, I will employ them to do it !

I can honestly say that these videos are the best thing I’ve found on RU-vid

Your alliteration never ceases to amaze me.

Coor mate.. yous forgot to add they're pissheads and can be found blacked out in your local park after down'n a few steamy fermented dates.. not an unknown practice amoung the more colourful crowd.. especially in some of the inner city parks😊

Yesssss rainbows lets go! My best friend is a rescue rainbow, evil loud abusive angel and i love her.

Taste the Rainbow ? I came here for recipes . . .

I never wanted a bird, but then my housemate rescued a baby disco chicken while working on a building site in Melbourne. Pure adorable chaos.

Some of these birds called our fig tree home for the past 10 years, and last year when it didn't produce any fruit they discovered our plum tree....if they ate the hole fruit we wouldn't mind but one or two bites was enough from each....hundreds of fruit wasted.....and the nets never stopped them. We had to get rid of the fig tree a few weeks ago, they've moved to the tree opposite our house but they scream every morning, almost sounding angry they we had to get rid of the tree.

Hi from Perth Western Australia, aka Alaska 🤣 Absolutely love your vids ❤ I have a lot of birds visiting my yard but only see the lorikeets flying overhead and in the park behind my house in very small numbers. Though we do have a real issue with corellas in our area. Boy, are these guys super noisy and can be destructive! They fly over every morning and evening in huge numbers as they tend to congregate at the nearby Jandakot airport, causing havoc I would imagine due to the huge flock sizes and small aircraft. I love the 28, Ringneck, but have not seen any near my suburb of Perth. Great information presented with very clever wit. Keep up the fabulous content. Thank you 💗

There's a pair that have a nest near my house! They come back every year :)! While they are pretty, lori chicks are one of the worst sounding animals on earth lol. Like if a vinyl record was made of sandpaper. Constantly. And there's two of them.

I’ve seen rainbow lorikeets fight everything from king parrots to even sulphur crested cockatoos, they have short bird syndrome and will fight things many times their size, or screech loudly at them I guess

"More rainbows than a pride parade on acid" mood

I thought this was a cooking video? Anyway, these little buggers fly through my backyard doing about 80kph sometimes only inches from my head.

The Rainbows who own me come to my kitchen window & yell at me. They bang on the window and screech like …rainbow lorikeets 🤷🏼‍♀️, until i come & open the window. Then they become an invasive species. All over the kitchen bench. Nommin’ up bits of this & that. Over to the fruit bowl then into the dog food bin. Little bastards they are 🥰. They frequently get into it with the Kookas & the Maggies. All the other birds just kind of look at them and step back till they go.

Really love these cheeky, noisy Birds! They always come in pairs or massive flocks and they have their own personalities. Oh and the colours and chirps are the best! Thanks for the video! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Love the video! Autistic person whose special interest is birds here, be careful using the term lory and lorikeet interchangeably, because they dare different species/subspecies of bird. Their common family is Loriini but lories and lorikeets are different subspecies of honeyeaters in the Loriini taxonomy/family. In behaviour they are basically the same, loud, trouble making jokesters with a pension for property damage. I happen to have a black capped lory myself (Lorius.L.lory if anyone is interested) however here are some fun facts of how they are different to one another as they are different types of bird! Lorikeets are generally a lot smaller around 75-150ish grams depending on locality and species, they also have long thin tails and shorter more rounded beaks. While lories clock in at around 200-280ish grams (which is a lot bigger when it comes to avian species as they are very light to begin with) similar in size to a small galah. They are also a lot rounder bodied, have very shot and stubby squared off tail and more elongated beaks. As far as I am aware, however I could be wrong, lories are only found in New Guinea/Indonesia and the adjacent islands. Whereas lorikeets are found in many different places, including Australia, partially because they are much better suited for longer flights, where lories tend to rely a lot of jumping branch to branch if that is a option. As a bird nerd just thought I would through some commonly overlooked information everyone’s way! If you want any other facts about these guys or really any other species of parrot/bird I will be happy to chat, I have raised, rehabilitated or obsessed over many species of bird and would be happy to reply to anyones questions to the best of my ability! Last note, don’t get them as pets, they are even worse to keep then parrots and parrots make bad enough pets (coming from someone who owns both) you need to dedicate your life to them and they will still bite you, cost you thousands and brake your ears and your house. If you want a parrot, you most likely don’t, you actually want a pigeon. They are domesticated and are a much better option so I encourage you to look into them first!

When it comes to their status in New Zealand, Rainbow Lorikeets did indeed establish a population here, namely in Auckland if I remember correctly. The population was unfortunately exterminated though, which is due to legit worry that they could have become yet another invasive species to add to the list, and that they were seen as likely vectors of certain parrot specific diseases that could threaten our native parrots. As lovely as lorikeets are, it is perhaps for the best that they never establish here (though it would be awesome if we had a native lorikeet!). Eastern Rosellas are a widespread introduced species in NZ's North Island though, and also have a separate population around the city of Dunedin in the South Island. The classic Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo also has some feral populations here and there in NZ, plus Galahs have feral populations on some of the islands near-ish to Auckland.

Had a backyard with a gum and bottlebrush tree. The normally bully noisy minors went quiet and moved away when the Loris come to town. Thanks for another insight to a great Aussie bird.

I was interested in the evolution of their colouring, and apparently it's a form of "mosaic evolution." Their colouring evolved at different points and independently of each other. So the green is for camouflage (I think this is their OG colour), and the other colours help identify their species amongst other lorikeets. Some of their colours are invisible to humans, and all their markings make up 1/3 of colours birds can see.

I have pairs knocking at my window for sunflower seeds. They are beautiful to look at but their temperament is quite aggressive. Comparatively the cockatoos will wait patiently for food while the lorikeets try and bite it out of your hand before you can place it down. Not a fan.

One bedroom unit with water boarding facilities. Sign me up.

Big Lez Any hole’s a goal Warhammer references Mate, why aren’t we mates

As a 10yr owner of a rainbow lorikeet, you very much unplayed their territorial nature lmao

We found a lorrie who had the paralysis, I named him Honk, it was really sad, all he could do was “honk”

I have a 5 acre paddock & the Rainie Lollies there eat the mulbery tree grapes before I get a chance to pick them. 😅

Thats not a masked lapwing.....

I have a flock that like to race me down my long dirt road, absolute clowns 😂

They also love to flock in a single tree at shopping centre car parks and rain down shit on any car under that tree. All while their deafening shreeks pierce everyones ear holes like tiny daggers.

the OneyPlays reference was a nice touch

In the NT there is a variety called the red collared lorikeet.

And they r so fucking loud and annoying if there are lots of them outside your window

I meet one up close in a tree the other week, very kindly let me take really close up pictures of him!

I paused the video while on a walk and was confused when the bird noises continued

Can you please do the willie wag tail. That is a bird that fears nothing!

Being as a Queenslander myself, I genuinely was unaware that these lorikeets in our state are getting left paralysed.💔😢😭

Hello i live in Broome North Western Australia and as summer approaches every year and the fruit of the mango trees ripen you find lorikeets chattering in the mango trees.

3:14 is still paying $600 a week in Melbourne

Umbrella tree nectar gets them drunk. I know it's probably not good for them, but drunken lorikeet brawls are hilarious.

little coloring book birds

that's so true they do brighten up my morning on the way to work, I always see a flock hiding in a neighbour's camellia hedge

Mate once I was ridding my bike to school and a group of these blokes took a dump all over me

Ski-Hi-Ti-Di 🌈🌈🌈 (great descriptor!)

Do plovers you coward! (Masked lapwing if you feel fancy) ... I dare you

I’ve had 2 steal sugar from a hotel once

HONEY WAKE UP NEW BACKYARD NATURALIST VIDEO HAS DROPPED 👀👀👀

Beautiful mongrels.

There is a massive flowering gum tree in the street near my bedroom window. Usually every May the 5am 120db screeching of a thousand lorikeets wakes me too early. So far this year have only seen the advance scouting pairs searching for which tree is their next food supply. The tree is not flowering yet. Melbourne East.