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Kookaburra at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, Brisbane, Queensland.
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Family group of Kookaburras at Jolly's Lookout, Brisbane Forest Park.
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Kookaburra at Bunya State Forest near Brisbane.
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Kookaburra, Bunya Mountains National Park.
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Kookaburra, Bunya Mountains National Park.
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Laughing Kookaburra
Photograph copyright: Nickolay Tilcheff - all rights reserved. Used with permission.
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LAUGHING KOOKABURRA FACTS |
Description
The Laughing Kookaburra is a stocky bird with large head and a short neck and blunt tail. Beak is fairly long and sturdy. The wings are brown with blue mottling, the back is brown and the tail reddish. The males have a patch of blue-green feathers in the center of the rump - this less noticeable on the females.
Other Names
Bushman's Clock
Size
45cm
Habitat
open woodlands, forests, orchards, parkland, partially timbered farmland, and suburbs and towns.
Food
large insects, lizards, snakes, amphibians, small mammals, birds Large prey is killed by swinging it against a branch or fence.
Breeding
hollow trees or holes in termite mounds on trees. Also earthen banks. Burrows may be up to two feet deep with entrance hole about 10cm diameter. 2-4 white eggs hatch after 25-29 day incubation.
Range
eastern Australia
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Coraciiformes | | Family: | Alcedinidae | | Genus: | Dacelo | | Species: | novaeguineae | | Common Name: | Laughing Kookaburra |
Relatives in same Genus
Blue-winged Kookaburra (D. leachii)
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