Aussie Bird Nicknames
This bird is known colloquially as a bin chicken or a tip turkey.*
What is Ibis?
*Australian White Ibis
This bird is famous for its loud, cackling call, with some tourists even confusing it for a monkey.
What is kookaburra?
This bird decorates the surrounds of its nest with blue decorations.*
What is bowerbird?
*Satin Bowerbird
This bird appears on the Queensland coat of arms.
What is the brolga?
A group of crows.
What is a murder?
This bird is commonly called a "plover" in Australia.
What is the masked lapwing?
This parrot has a harsh screech and is often seen in noisy flocks of white and yellow.*
What is a cockatoo?
*Sulphur-crested cockatoo
This bird uses its beak like a thermometer to monitor the temperature of it's mound. Often considered "bad parents" as chicks hatch fully independent and receive no parental support.*
What is bush/brush/scrub turkey?
*Australian Brush-Turkey
I am a King Penguin who gained notability in 2024, weighing more than both my foster parents combined at 8 months.
A group of owls.
What is a parliament?
This nocturnal bird with eerie calls is often shortened to "curlew".
This bird is one of the best mimics in the world, copying chainsaws, alarms, other birds and even lightsabers.
What is the lyrebird?
The fastest bird on land.
What is the emu?
These nocturnal birds that have perfected the art of looking like a tree branch are often mistaken for owls.
What are frogmouths?
Commonly referred to as a tiding/s, charm or mischief.
What are magpies?
The laughing kookaburra is sometimes given the nickname a "Bushman's ____________".
What is a clock (Bushman's Clock)?
This bird, Australia's heaviest, communicates using infrasonic booms (low-frequency rumblings that are often beyond human hearing ranges).*
What is cassowary?
*Southern Cassowary
The fastest bird.
What is Peregrine Falcon?
This bird has the largest wingspan of any living bird, often measuring between 2.5 and 3.7 metres.*
What are albatross?
*Wandering Albatross
A group of finches.
What is a charm?
This bird is sometimes referred to as a "peewee" or "muddy".
What is a magpie-lark?
This aptly named bird's call is a loud, metallic "tink" or "ping"
Unlike woodpeckers (as they are not native to Australia), these birds fill a similar niche by climbing tree trunks in a spiral pattern and probing the bark for insects.
What are treecreepers?
Kimberley, Regent, , Blue-faced and Grey are all songbirds from this family.
What are honeyeaters?
Groups of this bird are commonly referred to as a "convocation".
What are eagles.