MINI: What Is The Bird?

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Comedy, Music Interviews, Music, Comedy Interviews

4.7 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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After we got talking about bird calls in Small Thing Big Joy, we went down a rabbit hole of birds.. can you name the bird Christian is doing an impression of before our Bird Expert does?

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0:00.0	IHart Podcasts. You can hear more. Gold 104.3 podcast, playlist and listen live on the free IHart app.
0:09.2	Got anything good?
0:11.1	Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
0:19.1	Christian, the bird that you're doing the impression of.
0:22.3	I don't know what the bird is, but it's exactly the same as a bird that I threw a shoe at 30 years ago
0:28.1	that used to live at my mom and dad's place in the tree.
0:31.5	The shoe is still in the tree to this day.
0:34.8	That's the second thing stuck in a tree this week.
0:36.8	This bird, and it goes tree this. This bird.
0:38.0	And it goes like this.
0:42.2	What is that?
0:43.1	It's not a wattle bird.
0:45.0	Christian, is it the bird from the movie,
0:46.4	No.
0:47.8	Is it a drongo?
0:49.0	I don't believe that's a bird, sir.
0:51.8	Do-do.
0:54.5	That they extinct.
0:56.9	Is it a butcher bird?
0:58.3	Never heard of that.
0:59.3	I don't know.
1:00.3	But it's a very common Australia one, but what is it?
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