The Birds

The included photo may just look like the outcome of an amateur with a fully charged digital camera, however, this is a typical scene in Sydney during dusk. If this makes you think of Hitchcock's "Birds" movies, you're a bit off. Rather, replace that thought with images of "The Wizard of Oz" and flying monkeys. Flying monkeys in Australia? Not quite, however, the next best thing are these giant bats (flying foxes). By day they hang in the trees at the Botanical Gardens, squealing and socialising, by night they fly around eating insects and stealing young children.