That looks to be big enough to be a raven, although the beak looks wrong. It’s bigger than our crows, to be sure.

He went through two 1½-inch hardwood dowels in his cage a month; he savaged a neighbor’s 16-pound tom cat, who was planning on a free meal; he bit a gold Cross pen in half when the stupid vet, who assured me he was familiar with large birds and didn’t need the welding gauntlets I offered, attempted to inspect his beak. Felipe loved my sister-in-law, but generally felt the rest of the world needed to be torn apart.

I handled him with welding gauntlets, and the knowledge that he would sit quietly on my shoulder. His wings were clipped, so he enjoyed rides in my VW convertible perched on the rear view mirror with his wings spread. Other than the fact that he crapped all over everything, we generally got along much better than he got along with my brother.

Felipe caused several thousand dollars worth of damage to the wood siding and railings of my brother’s condo, as cedar isn’t much of a challenge to a beak that can pierce Coke cans.

An adult severe macaw can wake the dead if it decides it is time to shriek. Understand I could push 450 watts through my Bose 901 speakers, and they were no match for him. It only happened if I forgot to do certain end of the day procedures, so I only forgot once.

Anyone who chooses to keep a member of the parrot/macaw group in their house is certifiable.

The blackbirds were just plain evil! This one swooped in and started eating the frys right off a plate. I wasn’t going to try and chase it away. There was a second one sitting on a nearby railing; keeping guard I would imagine.

As for squirrels… I have lots of them and would be willing to export them to anyone that wants them! They especially like my yard because I have a walnut tree. They build nests in the nearby elm tree and there is no getting rid of them.

And check out the cockies (sulfur-crested cockatoos) & Galah’s too! They are a lot bigger and just as bad! Cockies can live 65 years or so, and they are apparently one of the more intelligent avian species. People (stupid people) are starting to have them as pets. *sigh* The problem being that when a cockie decides you live in a good area, it will get all it’s friends, and you can kiss that neighborhood goodbye! A flock of cockies will destroy any smaller trees in no time, and destroy your house too, especially if it’s timber.

The Sulphur-crested Cockatoo’s normal diet consists of berries, seeds, nuts and roots. It also takes handouts from humans. The species has become a pest around urban areas, where it uses its powerful bill to destroy timber decking and paneling on houses. Feeding normally takes place in small to large groups, with one or more members of the group watching for danger from a nearby perch.

When not feeding, Cockatoos will bite off branches and leaves from trees. These items are not eaten, however. The activity may help to keep the bill trimmed and from growing too large.

Check this out:
Cockies’ peck wreck

Info and an MP3 of a cocky here. Multiply the sound by 20-100, and you get the idea!
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

Galah

So, as well as the most venomous snakes and spiders, we also have the noisiest and most destructive birds known to man! LOL

I’ll let LadyMin tell you about the blackbirds here that she got to meet having lunch one day! LOL Maybe she’ll post a couple pic’s. 😉

Who says Mother Nature doesn’t have a nasty sense of humor!

They sound like the drunken robins we get in the Spring that raid the camphor trees for berries on their way North. Hordes of the noisy pests passing purple berries through their system and dropping them all over everything.

The big different is that the Rosellas apparentlycrush the seeds, rather than just passing them through, so they are no use to the plants, and they strip everything that’s edible.

They’ve killed all of the large snakes that controlled the rodent population, so it’s feral cats or poison to control rats and mice.

LadyMin saw them when she was here, she thought they were pretty, ’cause they are red and multi-colored… and then they started yelling at her too! LOL Even cat’s don’t scare them!

I think I prefer our snakes etc! Much easier to deal with I think!

Good luck then!

How about automated flamethrowers?

LOL

You must not have squirrels “Down Under”.