Kookaburra

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The Kookaburra's rolling, laughing call is one of the best-known sounds in the animal world. The birds raise a wild chorus of crazy laughter as they go to roost in the treetops at dusk, and again wake everyone within hearing just as dawn breaks, so regularly that in the hinterlands of Australia they are know as the "bushman's clock."

Australians value the Kookaburra, not only as an intriguing member of the strange fauna, but for its habit of feeding on snakes and lizards. The Kookaburra seizes snakes behind the head and kills them by dropping them from a height, or else carries them to a perch and batters them senseless with its big bill before swallowing them.

Less welcome is the Kookaburra's fondness for the young of other birds, and its occasional raids on farmyards for ducklings and baby chicks. Credit Honolulu Zoo Here are some pictures of my friendly local kookaburra. He was digging for grubs.
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From, Mrs. M in Brisbane Australia ||  ||  || Does the laughing kookaburra really laugh? An old children's song says that it does. In the song the kookaburra sits in an old gum tree, eats gumdrops, and laughs. Laughing kookaburras are noisy birds. The noises they make actually do sound like laughter. At dawn and at dusk, laughing kookaburras get together to make noise. The noise starts out as a chuckle. Then it turns into a kind of belly laugh. Then the belly laugh becomes shrieking laughter.
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The laughing kookaburra makes so much noise that the bird is sometimes called the "bushman's clock." Laughing kookaburras use their laughing sound to show the boundaries of their territory. Laughing kookaburras live in forests and woodlands in eastern Australia. They have other calls for finding family members or signaling that danger is near.

The laughing kookaburra is the largest member of the kingfisher family. It can grow up to 18 inches long. The laughing kookaburra is not a bright, colorful bird. Its head is light beige or white with a brown stripe that looks like a mask across its eyes. Its chest is light beige or white. Its back and wings are brown. The wings have light blue dots. Laughing kookaburras have thick, heavy beaks. The beaks can be up to four inches long.

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