Well, I don't know the correct term for this, or if there even is a correct term, but what happens is, my chooks will just freeze in their tracks while in the middle of foraging around in the yard, and stay that way for the longest time.
There are only four of them. They'll be out...
Thanks everyone, for your responses! Interesting to hear about the different names applied to these birds in different languages. As a footnote to the "chook" thing, it also frequently gets changed to "chookeys", which is the more intimate version, the term of endearment, as in: "Have you locked...
BOR-R-R-K book-book-book, BOR-R-R-R-K book-book-book-book.... (That's my interpretation of chook language for "hi there")
Wow, this sure is one popular spot, I see. Guess it's not surprising, so many people are into chooks. Apparently there are over 24 billion of them in the world, or more...