This goose is the Australian White Ibis. Starting in the 1970s, these birds started taking over the city-dwelling niches usually associated with pigeons and seagulls, so now Australian trash bins have a different bird rummaging through them than anywhere else.
I don’t mean to start a struggle session but I’d much rather have an ibis be my local trash bird than pigeons or seagulls. Ibises are cool-looking. Oops. Did I say too much?
We call them bin chickens. Mostly an urban/suburban New South Wales and Queensland thing afaik. Seagulls, cockatoos, ravens and crows are still the rubbish rummagers in the states further south.
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When I last met an australian they showed me this helpful little ditty to teach me about Ibises. [CW: australian, so c word shows up]
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