Yes they are native. We have lots of different ducks and related birds. Have a look at this website so you can see them: https://www.australiaswonderfulbirds.com.au/ducks

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I was born in Europe and it also annoys me that some people who immigrated around the same time as this lady, such as my family, now criticise and stereotype newer immigrants as if they’ve forgotten what their experience was like. It’s like now we can be with the ‘kool kids’ and can bully someone else 🙄

She’s spot on!

Perhaps there should be a campaign encouraging people to adopt the ‘paseo’ (Spanish) or ‘passegiatta’ (Italian). This tradition of taking an evening walk after dinner is pleasant, healthy and sociable and particularly nice in Summer or the daylight-saving months for those outside of Qld. Country towns and walkable cities where people can stroll and greet each other would be good for both mental as well as physical health.

I know what you mean. Some farmers in our regional area are starting to come round but overall is much like where you are. There are regional organisations that are educating farmers but it’s a slow process. Where possible we must keep bringing the topic up about the positives with people who are not well informed.

I wish you every success. We need people like you.

I don’t know if you are from Australia or not, but most of our holiday programs are religion-free.

I’m no Unidan as I am am not an ecologist but I’d be ecstatic if we had an Aussie Unidan here, just not one into vote fraud.

There’s so much apathy…

Just remembered: the wallaby that was startled was a juvenile while an adult one had a good look and even looked behind the mirror to see if there was a wallaby there, using logic after sniffing the mirror. Some really interesting responses. And for the fatty echidna not even registered 😆

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The majority of people exposed continuously to mainstream media in the majority of nations are being sold the same story including in our own. You can’t fault anyone for wanting to live a more comfortable life but in ‘advanced’ economies we have made excess our sickness (literally) and plundered the world around us.

Apparently, the seal totem can represent imagination, playfulness but also hard work. The act of sending a kite into the sky mirrors an attempt to reach for what lies beyond ordinary perception amongst other meanings. Sounds you’ve had a beautiful day.

They’ve done some great work.

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If we were surviving on bin contents, we’d smell too. If you want to know more about them: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/offtrack/behind-the-ibis-invasion/6842242

OK, tongue in cheek but I noticed that the bins in the video were either open or overflowing with bags that can be pierced, not secured under a lid.

I wonder if one day they’ll study the cast-iron digestive system of this species. We may learn something about survival. The way we’re going at the moment and its repercussions we may learn to throw out less food and also eat and and smoke less poison and not play ‘I’ve got a bigger nuke than yours’. In which case, survivors will be scavenging too and we’ll be smelling like bin chickens.