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A Noisy Miner (Manorina melanocephala) hunting for insects

Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia

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A Noisy Miner, standing on a small branch, with its beak stuck in an opening at the end of the branch. The bird is looking for food or insects inside the branch

A miner inconvenience
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Two noisy miners stand near a crested pigeon, watching it intensely

Noisy Miner (Manorina melanocephala)

Clayfield, Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia - April 2025

#bird #brisbane #meanjin #honeyEater #noisyMiner #manorinaMelanocephala #manorina #australianBirds

A close up of a Noisy Miner standing on a branch, looking directly at the photographer

A noisy miner by the water.

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A noisy miner sits on a post in front of an inlet to Sydney Harbour. In the background, on the other shore, is a shipyard.

Today's campus birds started with a small group of three Bush Stone-curlews this morning, and then a family of ducks, some swamphen chicks and a Noisy Miner this afternoon.

#Bird #UQ #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #BushStoneCurlew #NoisyMiner #AustralasianSwamphen #AustralianWoodDuck

Three Bush Stone-Curlews in the morning sun in a garden under some large fig trees.
One (left) is standing on its tall legs, while the other two are resting on the ground amongst the leaves.

A family of wood ducks on a concrete path. The father is at the rear, keeping watch in that direction, the mother on the right front, watching me, and four ducklings are huddled together in the middle having a snooze.

A tiny black fluffy chick with enormous feet, stands on a lawn.
It is the chick of an AustralasianSwamphen.

A Noisy Miner (a grey honeyeater bird) perched on the branch of a banksia bush. Two banksia cones can be seen behind it. Its body is turned away from the camera, but its head is turned back around to look at the camera. The background is green and out-of-focus.

Went for a wander down the road this morning, found a damp Crimson Rosella, a busy Noisy Miner, a Magpie and a Tawny Frogmouth doing its best impression of a stick.

#AustralianWildlife #Bird #WildOz #BirdsForBecsNan #AustralianMagpie #CrimsonRosella #NoisyMiner #TawnyFrogmouth

A red and blue parrot sitting on a wooden fence. It has its back to the camera, but has turned its head back to look at the camera.

A Noisy Miner in a grevillea bush. It is momentarily standing upright above a cream coloured flower which it was previously licking nectar from.

The bird itself is mostly grey, with a bit of olive on the wings, black eye mask except for a small crescent of yellow behind the eye. It has an orange, short, but pointy beak.

An Australian Magpie, sitting on a branch in a tree. It is a black bird with white patches (back of the neck, underside of tail near the rump, couple on the wings) and steel grey pointy beak.

A owl sized nightjar relative (Tawny Frogmouth) sitting bolt upright in a tree, beak pointed to the sky and nose plumes erect. It is attempting to look like a branch, and doing a pretty decent job of it, except for its chosen perch which is much thinner than it is and therefore gives away its presence.

Noisy miner amid red kangaroo paw.

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A noisy minor eating the nectar of red kangaroo paw.

There's a Noisy Miner chick at the top of my driveway, sheltering by the garage wall. It's still very downy, but there's enough feathers to be sure of what it is. Does anyone know if this is in any way normal behaviour? Given the fact that the parents are bound to be aggressive little bastards, I haven't made any attempt to get too close. In fact, I retreated to the porch.

If this is normal behaviour, will it go away unassisted?

Now for some random or maybe relevant hashtags...

#bird #NoisyMiner #australia

Noisy miner on the spike of a grass tree

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An Australian noisy miner perches on a the spike of a grass tree, with the bright blue sky behind and a eucalyptus tree to the left of the image.

I went out to our Gatton Campus today for a job, and while I charged the car, I took in some of the local bird life.

The Noisy Miners were busy harassing everyone, the Magpie followed me from tree to tree talking to me, the Crested Pigeon was not interested in being within 20m of me, so took refuge in a Jacaranda tree, and there were several Little Friarbirds flitting about.

#Bird #UQ #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #NoisyMiner #AustralianMagpie #CrestedPigeon #LittleFriarbird

A Noisy Miner, living up to its name, calling from a fence to its mates.

A handsome Australian Magpie (a large songbird in black and white with a pointy white beak).

A Crested Pigeon in a Jacaranda Tree. It has a prominent crest on its head, taller than its head is.

The relatively pretty Little Friarbird. A mostly white and brown bird, but with a yellow chin, and blue skin patch on most of its face.

A Noisy Miner takes a flying bath in the lake at UQ.

It did this a couple of times, flying down to the lake surface, briefly splashing down and then flying back up to the nearby tree.

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #Bird #NoisyMiner

A grey and brown honeyeater with a bright yellow-orange beak, in flight, wings on the downbeat, just above the water's surface. A ripple where it splashed down can be seen below it.

A grey and brown honeyeater with a bright yellow-orange beak, in flight to the left and towards the camera, wings on the downbeat and backlit, such that they are semi-translucent, just above the water's surface. A ripple where it splashed down can be seen below it.

Noisy miner, Manorina melanocephala. These guys are generally pretty massive jerks to both each other and other bird species.

#nature #birds #noisyminer #honeyeater #birdsothefediverse

A noisy miner, Manorina melanocephala, shot from underneath while sitting on a tree branch.

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Noisy miner (Manorina melanocephala). Adult. Australia. Conservation status: Least Concern. CC: VRNL 📷: Photo by Pexels via Pixabay 2016

State distribution:
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmana, Victoria

The photo shows a medium-sized Australian bird of the honeyeater family with a mostly grey body and a black cap. It has a bright yellow patch behind the eye, a yellow-orange beak and feet, and pale tips to its tail feathers.

A Duck Loaf (a Pacific Black Duck, having a rest in the shade), and a Noisy Miner with a good spread of colour behind.

#bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #NoisyMiner #PacificBlackDuck

Noisy Miner standing on a metal sign top, but with a lot of out of focus colour behind it (green, blue, yellow, red).

A Pacific Black Duck, hunched down in loaf form on the grass, while two Australian Wood Ducks (out of focus) look on from beside the lake.

#birdsofmastodon #bundoora #NoisyMiner

Short walk on campus today. Not much about in the middle of the day, but here are some #NoisyMiner s having a drink, a #LaughingKookaburra just sitting around on a branch, an #EasternWaterDragon sunning itself on the lawn, and the underside of a #RainbowLorikeet

#WildOz #AustralianWildlife #bird

A small group of Noisy Miners on the ground drinking from a puddle. These grey birds have black faces with a yellow patch behind the eye and yellow beaks and feet. They have an olive stripe on the wing.

A Laughing Kookaburra on a branch, in the shade. Didn't appear to be doing much, just chillin'

An Eastern Water Dragon (a type of lizard) on some grass. It is giving me side-eye.

This type of lizard had a row of spines down its back, and come colourful markings on face and chest. Body length was about 30cm, and another 30cm or so for the tail.

The colourful underside of the Rainbow Lorikeet. From the right, a red beak, blue head, red eye, green and yellow neck (back), red and orange chest, blue belly, green and yellow bum.

Oh no! The Noisy Miner nest has fallen out of the tree! At least there's no eggs or bebes yet but that's a lot of wasted effort! They even lined it! 😭

#NoisyMiner #Nest #WildOz #Birds

A #NoisyMiner in #brightonEast taking in the sun yesterday, also in mid-hop on the building guttering (pic 3)…

I observed this bird chasing (and snacking on!) insects in the grass near a busy road and footpath.

Was wary of my presence so couldn’t get too close, but it hung about long enough for a few pics at least!

The noisy miner (Manorina melanocephala) is a bird in the honeyeater family.

🙌💖

#birdsofmastodon #MostLiveable #downunder #animalsofmastodon #melbourne #MostLiveable #victoria #Narrm #victoria #Australia

The leucistic magpie (mostly white magpie, famous around UQ), seems to have bred again, as this semi-leucistic magpie is presumably another of its brood.

Also, Noisy Miners are all over campus at the moment. They are by far, the most prominent bird there.

#bird #nature #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #AustralianMagpie #NoisyMiner