How the bin chicken became a totem for modern Australia
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In just a few decades, the Australian white ibis (Threskiornis molucca) has made itself at home in many of Australia's coastal and inland cities.
And aside from the feathered birds we see daily (often foraging amongst garbage), representations of ibis have exploded in popular culture. The humble ibis, it seems, has gone viral.
From ibis tattoos to artworks to TV series, this often maligned bird has become a cultural phenomenon, bordering on a national obsession.
This ibis juggernaut says a lot about Australian identity and culture in the 21st century — and human-animal relations in a time of environmental threat and uncertainty.
Ibis have entered the Australian English lexicon as "bin chickens", "tip turkeys", "sandwich snatchers" and "picnic pirates", to name just four of their many nicknames.
They can be found splashed across clothing; probing human rubbish in cartoons and poetry; on cups and tea towels, in children's books and the daily press. Hundreds of ibis-centred objects are for sale online, including gift cards and tote bags.
Ibis adorn murals, in Victoria, Sydney, and Perth. In Queensland, a baker recently made a cake depicting an ibis eating out of a garbage can commissioned for a 21st birthday.
There is a new vogue for ibis tattoos, especially among schoolies in Surfers Paradise and nostalgic Australians.
And a prototype for an inflatable ibis for swimming pools, created by a local designer and advertised as "an Aussie icon", was crowd funded in early 2018.
Even the Sydney office of Alliance Francaise loves the bin chicken: in a witty 2017 marketing exercise it compared Paris and Sydney and the birds (pigeon and ibis respectively) that symbolised them.
Read more at The rise of the ibis
based on the infamous wildlife in australia my bet is that the bird is there to pump iron and get scary
speaking of birds in australia i saw a bloke on my way home from work, in the city he was riding his bike along the footpath with a bush turkey running in front of him as if it was being chased by him.
1000s of years of evolution of an animal put to waste when all they have to do is stoop over a trashcan and a liftetime supply of food will eventually come we are both at the top and bottom of the foodchain
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