Sydney Adventures

These birds (called Sacred Ibis) are strangely almost as ubiquitous as pigeons in Sydney. You see them all over rifling through trashcans with their long beaks.

Cockatoo eye.

This prehistoric looking bird which is about the size of an ostrich is called a cassowary. I've read that "this bird is capable of killing a man," but since I'm a woman, I didn't worry and got close enough to take this picture. (Cheesy, I know.) The hard bony growth on its head protects it as it runs through the forest and breaks the branches of the trees in its path.

I must admit that I absolutely adore kookaburras. If I wanted to inflict you with the twenty pictures of kookaburras that I took, I could, but I'm sure that it might get tedious for you to look through them all.

Truly, how can one not love a bird with a head that seems so disproportionately big to its body? It's like a living cartoon character. While I was on a north coastal bushwalk, this kooky guy flew right up to me and perched above my head. It was like he was calling "Take zillions of photos of me! I'm so photogenic!" And so I did. You can see them if you'd like to download this zipped file (174 kb) of only a few of the kookaburra jpegs.