I am now in Australia and so far the only wildlife I've seen was a Butcher Bird on my friend's front porch. A Butcher Bird is interesting because it eats meat. They are mostly insect eaters, but will also feed on small lizards and other meat. There are no kangaroos or koalas on the streets. In this part of Australia, they are only in zoos and wildlife parks. I'll get to see these on the trip but not yet.
The thing that is most different from the US is that they drive on the opposite side of the road. This is very confusing when you first get here. On another trip I was almost hit by a car because I was looking for cars to come from the opposite direction and didn't see it coming. Luckily, my friend pulled me back onto the side walk in time. The steering wheel is on the opposite side of the car, too, like the one in the picture. I keep trying to climb into the driver's side.
See ya, mates.
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4th grade students want to know:
- Does the butcher bird eat small snakes too?
- Why do the Bucher Birds eat meat?
I looked on one website and it says that butcher birds sometimes knock snakes off trees to make them defenseless and then eat them, so I guess that snakes are also part of their diet.
Butcher birds are birds of prey like hawks or eagles, which is why they eat meat. Like with humans and other animals, there are some that are carnivores (eat animals) and others that are herbivores (eat plants) or omnivores (eat both plants and animals).
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