I still find it strange to hear about cockatoos flying around free - in this country you'd be lucky to find a sulphur for less than $600 Au and a black probably twice as much. Maybe we can swap bike parts for birds Geoff, just not dead ones.....

Our biggest bird problems are hawks at roadkills, and guineafowl. You don't want to hit one of those.......

 

About 4 years ago I hit something, something bigger than a bug.
It blasted my face shield so much that I had to pull over and clean the guts off.
My best guess would be a humming bird.

The two guys I ride with each hit small birds this year.

 

This was the result of my wood pigeon strike at about 80mph.







Those things are soooo stupid, they fly at you instead of away from you sometimes. **** me up so much I still duck every time I get anywhere near one!




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Further to Bordo's story, during the grain season, the (pink and grey coloured) Galahs feed aplenty on the side of the road near silos or where the grain trucks turn and spill a little grain.

After it rains, if the grain remains in the pools of water, it ferments. You should see the Galahs then! P*ssed as the town drunk. Not too clever at avoiding cars and I've hit dozens when I used to drive to Port Lincoln after Uni.

But the birds you DON'T want to hit here is either the Emu or the Wedge-tailed Eagle.

Wedgies are notoriously slow to take off from road kill. And the hotter it is in the outback, the slower the buggers are. Many a time I've had to slam on the brakes as a Wedgie lumbered into the air, belly full of 'roo parts, in front of me. Beautiful bird though.

Cheers, SB

 

Hit some black bird (small like 6 inches long) back in the 80's when doing 100mph plus and it almost took me off my cb700sc. Thought I dislocated my shoulder!