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Really really hot day? Let's go down to the dam for a swim! Emus love to swim. Their Dads take them swimming as chicks. This clutch is Toosh Toosh's. It's their second summer -- so they are about 17-19 months old. They have been independent of their Dad for about 9-11 months at this point, and...

This is Uno Chick. How old is she? Can anyone work it out?

Greedy Emu is one of only two ever 'double Alpha' birds observed here. The other was her father, the legendary Eric the Emu. Greedy could -- and would -- whup any thousand million billion tame emus she encountered. I've seen her attack a mob of a dozen wild emus (at the fig tree) and drive them...

One rarely, while watching birds, get to see them from the back. Here is a pair of scarlet-breasted robins, I assume a male and female, attacking their images in the mirror of the 'greenhouse.' So you can see both front of rear of both male and female.

Toosh Toosh Emu is unmistakeable. His fine tail plumage makes him one of only two or three recognisable emus of the Project. The two sookey females here for breakfast at dawn this morning are his chicks.

Torresian crow. Check the background, readers. U.S. folks can learn a lot about emus from the backgrounds of my photos. Emus grow and live and breed and travel according to the seasons. A hatchling, for example, begins to become a 'black head' at the beginning of its second season. The bird...

This mob of brumbies -- mustangs -- I've only ever seen three times. The footage is poor because it's deep dusk. These horses have been living in the National Park for decades and decades. But they come across to my block, as do the emus, from the Park.

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The reality here is clear enough. It's just that no one wants to say it: you can invest some more time and effort (and money); but you need to come to terms with the fact that having one or both euthanised is probably best for them if they are not clearly well on their way to permanent recovery...

I'd forgotten about this. It's a clip of two tame-wild emus dancing wildly about in the house-clearing here: SE

Are the sookey female and the young male looking more and more like a breeding-pair? Still unsure. But the male has been vocalising much more. Emu World is in a state of suspension, as the emus and all other critters wait for autumn rains. Things will turn ugly if there is no fresh grass --...

The only emus I've ever seen by moonlight was Eric and one of his clutches, just short of dawn, under a big bright moon. Two days ago, though, Sookey Female and her consort spent an hour vocalising in the house-clearing, in the moon light. Otherwise, it seems more and more as though they will...

The 'breeding-pair' here either are or are not showing early signs of being a breeding-pair. I notice that the (young) male is vocalising much more, even before dawn (while still at the roost), which is quite unusual. Otherwise, the three 'home team' birds -- the breeding-pair and the other...

The 'breeding-pair' here may or may not be exhibiting breeding-pair behaviors. But it is autumn. And the young male has been following the young female around since last spring. SE

'How do I gentle them down or attempt to get them to bond with me so that they will be handleable when older/bigger?' I will be offline for a few hours, but I promise to answer your question this afternoon. To begin, though: learn to flick the morsels with your thumb, like a marble. So the...

So, the newly-laid eggs are literally sitting about on the ground before the male sits to incubate? We have discussed this in the past. SE

The sookey home-team female and the male that has been following her around are beginning to look like a breeding-pair. The odds aren't high; but if this pair chooses to mate and breed right here, we may get to observe it all. It would be only the third time in 15 years. SE

They will scoff down almost all types of fruit, fresh and dried. (Not citrus) SE