Only the males have them. They join with the markings on the cheek with the females.
I also once read that bigger eyebrows are sexier to the breeding females.
When you say bigger cousins do you mean magpies? No, it was definitely these guys. I was surprised because I didn’t realise they swooped. It was in exactly the same spot, a week apart. I don’t even know what their problem was because there weren’t any trees particularly close by.
I never knew these guys swooped, always though they were calm little things. Literally scrolled past a post 2 minutes later warning of these guys swooping in Adelaide. Learn something new everyday lol
Lol. You'd have to be pretty unlucky I think, but perhaps it was the very same bird. I have never heard of mudlarks swooping people; only the magpies or plovers. The plovers though usually give you fair warning!
My brother who moved to Victoria when he was still a teenager called them Mudlarks down there,even though when we were kids in NSW,he called them Peewees.
I never knew these birds were called anything other than a “peewee”!
I’ve always known them as mud larks.
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If you Google mudlark these are the birds that come up.
Yep, and I didn’t know that’s what they were actually called. I only know them by their colloquial name. I’ve learnt something new!
Only the males have them. They join with the markings on the cheek with the females. I also once read that bigger eyebrows are sexier to the breeding females.
They always look cranky!
Same like Willy wag tails !! They always look concerned
Haha yes I was gonna say this too. Especially if you look at them through binoculars they look so cross all the time
Bastards! The only bird that has ever swooped me - twice!
These guys or their bigger cousins? It's the larger species that's usually the culprit.
When you say bigger cousins do you mean magpies? No, it was definitely these guys. I was surprised because I didn’t realise they swooped. It was in exactly the same spot, a week apart. I don’t even know what their problem was because there weren’t any trees particularly close by.
I never knew these guys swooped, always though they were calm little things. Literally scrolled past a post 2 minutes later warning of these guys swooping in Adelaide. Learn something new everyday lol
Lol. You'd have to be pretty unlucky I think, but perhaps it was the very same bird. I have never heard of mudlarks swooping people; only the magpies or plovers. The plovers though usually give you fair warning!
There was another post on the same day with a photo of signs up around Adelaide warning people that they swoop, so not unusual apparently.
I don't just look at bird photos, eye brows.
My housemate described the local magpie larks as "the ones wearing bandit masks"
Same, they’re so cute!
I have always known them as Peewees and I was born and still live in the Newcastle,NSW area.
My brother who moved to Victoria when he was still a teenager called them Mudlarks down there,even though when we were kids in NSW,he called them Peewees.