manorina melanocephala

A handsome bird but not popular owing to its aggressive nature, which drives away other small birds in the neighbourhood.

Although Noisy Miners are quite handsome birds, they are not popular - they're very aggressive and drive most other smaller birds away. They can muscle up to Magpies and Kookaburras and puff out their chest and pretend they're tough - the other birds totally ignore them! Quite funny sometimes!

endemic to eastern and south-eastern Australia. Photographed in Adelaide Botanical Gardens

The Noisy Miner is the urban version of the Yellow-throated Miner posted a few days ago.

I always thought that yellow patch is covered with short feathers :)

I am in Australia for near 6 months and I observed that it is not much possible to see a raven or raptor alone. There is always one or more noisy mynas/miners around to annoy.

Noisy Miner, This bird appointed itself to follow me and keep the bird world informed of my movements. It succeeded in making sure that I photographed no other birds that day. I got lots of shots of the Miner though.