Kate McKinnon loves ‘bin chickens’, the bizarre Australian animal you have by no means heard of

Kate McKinnon sat down with Tonight Present host Jimmy Fallon to gush about her time in Australia whereas filming her upcoming collection Joe vs. Carole. Nevertheless, whereas she was thrilled by Australia’s wallabies, kangaroos, and omnipresent slang, it was an equally omnipresent fowl that excited her first.

“My first day [in Australia] I used to be strolling on the road, and I noticed what I believed was essentially the most stunning fowl I’ve ever seen in my life,” stated McKinnon, describing a big, white fowl with a “lengthy, elegant beak.” “And I used to be like, ‘What is that this majestic heron simply free on the street? My god, I have been blessed right here — this can be a sight!’ And I requested some man that I bumped into, I used to be like, ‘What is that this beautiful fowl?’ And he was like, ‘Oh, that is a bin rooster.'”

Extra formally often called the Australian white ibis, bin chickens are known as such by locals as a result of they use their lengthy, elegant beaks to fish scraps out of rubbish bins. Although the birds are native to the nation’s inland wetlands, drying situations have pushed them into city areas.

“[Ibises are] their pigeons, and so they have about eight songs about how a lot they hate them,” stated McKinnon.