Posts Tagged ‘Australian birds’

Woman seeks love for randy Emu

Posted Fri May 15, 2009 10:40am AEST
Updated Fri May 15, 2009 1:17pm AEST

Randy ... Edward the emu. (Petrena Arriston)

A sexually-frustrated male emu is chasing a woman in the Northern Territory because it cannot find a female mate.

Patrena Arriston from Katherine, 300 kilometres south of Darwin, says her seven-year-old emu, Edward, began sitting on an empty nest last year and now chases her when she comes close to it.

“It’s starting to get a bit frustrated and when I go in there to pet it or feed the chooks and stuff like that, I sort of get rounded up,” she said.

“It keeps circling me and I have to get a palm frond and hold it up and sort of push it away.”

She says there is a female emu 800 kilometres away but she does not have a trailer to bring it to her property.

Read More at ABC News

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Gender confusion stalls emu love match

Posted Fri May 29, 2009 11:00am AEST
Updated Fri May 29, 2009 11:21am AEST

The owner of a remote Northern Territory roadhouse which bills itself as one of the world’s UFO hotspots is hoping to play matchmaker in the case of a sex-starved pet emu located 800 kilometres away.

But there’s a problem: the roadhouse owner can’t tell which of his pet emus are male and which are female.

The lonely plight of Edward the emu attracted global attention earlier this month after it was revealed he was sitting on an empty nest and exhibiting amorous behaviour towards his owner because he did not have a mate.

Concerned for Edward’s welfare, owner Patrena Arriston appealed for help to deliver a female emu from Wycliffe Well to Katherine to give the frustrated male emu some much-needed company.

Read More at ABC News

Let’s hope Edward meets the girl of his dreams as soon as they can work out a suitable partner and he lives a happy and long life up in the Top End. We will endeavour to update you on their success as we hear more.

We live in the Northern Beaches area of Sydney, there’s a lot of bushland, lots of trees and therefore a lot of wild birds. Here’s a few pictures of kookaburras gathering in the backyard.

Our Backyard Buddies (Kookaburras)

Wild Kookaburra Sitting In A Tree

Nan Feeding a Kookaburra on the verandah

They definitely live up to their laughing reputation, some mornings it’s a little like having a large group of roosters to wake up to as they make their famous laughing call.

Kookaburras have always been pretty friendly, they’ve picked up spiders and other things for food from the yard and have actually gotten quite close to us – not so close you can touch them but my grandmother used to be able to get right near them and have them eat out of her hand which was really exciting to see. One day when Nan was feeding a kookaburra, it actually spat a funnel web spider out in front her that it had picked up to eat from the yard – you can believe she was shocked!

Kookaburras come from the Kingfisher family and are found in both Australia and New Guinea. They are extremely well known Australia wide and can be found as the subject of songs, coins and postage stamps as well as forming part of business logos and names.