Bird moves brick off of garbage can and opens lid - GIF

[Jon]

Bird moves brick off of garbage can and opens lid.




Previously:

Bird works door motion detector - GIF
Jet bird strike + payload dump + explosion - video
Floating dock bird repelling robot - GIF and video
bird strike through windshield of Cessna 210
Bird makes tool to get food pellet GIF
Feeding birds out of your hand - GIF and photos

[jimfols]

I was really pleased when he used his leg. Because I kept saying 'Use your leg, use your leg'.

[Beserkleyboy]

Great clip! Sulphur Crested Cockatoos are big strong and very smart birds...and are in plague proportions in lots of AUS. They (a flock) can decimate a unnetted fruit tree in a couple of minutes...Cheers
Jim

[Paul Alciatore]

I like his little victory dance right after the brick falls.

"YES, I did it! Ta, da!"

[Beserkleyboy]

Paul, yea, they do have that understanding of completing a task...same with Kookaburras, and their ever patient wait for a worm or grub to surface, their dive (and they are NOT the most agile of birds) and capture of the morsel of meat...and then an instinctive neck thrashing to kill it, followed by an upward thrust of their head as they visually gulp it down...absolute magic to watch! Cheers
Jim

[DIYSwede]

Nothing personal towards mankind, but crows and ravens will outsmart and outlive us all...

2 cents

[Scrounga]

I had a walnut tree right outside my bedroom window and one year just as the walnuts were ripening the cockys descended and started eating the walnuts. While doing this they were calling and nattering to each other so I raced outside and scared them away. Next morning, not a sound until I heard a little squeak and when I went outside to have a look they had silently stripped the tree bare. They’re smart buggers. After that they came back every year and did the same thing, they’d silently strip the tree until we cut the tree down due to disease. Also they tend to stand out being white, but when they were in the tree and I was looking up at them I might see five or six birds but when I started making a racket to scare them off I would see up to twenty or so take off. In the right conditions they’re almost invisible.
Cheers, Stuart from Canberra, Australia.