I see em regularly in Rozelle and Leichhardt when on my postal run. They sorta just pop up outta nowhere, out of a bush.
Get a tonne of them around Campbelltown too.
Iâve noticed a big uptick in Bush Turkeys around my area in the last couple of years.
Lockdowns were seen purely as a great reclamation opportunity by native birds & they needed no invitation.
They are brush turkeys not bush turkeys.
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Pretty sure both names are in common use.
Next youâll be claiming Bin Chickens are actually called something else.
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Brush turkeys
And many call NSW Ravens crows, but it does not mean they are correct.
No, because neither of those names are correct, the are Currawongs.
They were formerly known as crow-shrikes or bell-magpies . Despite their resemblance to crows and ravens, they are only distantly related to the corvidae, instead belonging to an Afro-Asian radiation of birds of superfamily Malaconotoidea.
And just like that we are into the off season.
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I will call your Wiki with a raise from the Australian. museum.
Your Currawongs are correct but they are seperate to the ravens that also exist here.
if you want to see crows in Australia you need to go north of Forster.
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False equivalence, youâre describing mixing up two separate species, Iâm describing two common names for the same species.
Australian brush turkeys are related to other birds called brush turkeys in Indonesia and New Guinea. Those areas not having large English speaking populations to mishear/misunderstand/transmute that term, the âbush turkeyâ variant is never applied to those species.
Brush turkey is the originally correct term and bush turkey is the more recent corruption. Now go for your life arguing about prescriptive and descriptive language; I have no horse in that race.
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Their real name is âholy shit, what the fuck is it?â
Always been called bush turkeys from when I was a kid. Only learned a few years ago they were properly called brush turkeys.
Bush turkey is awesome folk etymology.
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More bird talk pls
If you want more bird life just follow Cumdogâs missus on instragram.
Youâre welcome.
Disappointed. Far too few birds.
Ahhh, the mighty blonde WAGtail.
