When I first started this blog I had picked out three photos, my profile photo is my beautiful Dukie, the next is Brisbane City at night and the background photo is a collage of Kookaburras. The first time I saw one was when I was first here in January 2011 and my husband, then boyfriend, took me to Picnic Point in Toowoomba and I saw and heard this magnificent bird. These birds don't really sing, like Robins and Blue Jays, they kinda laugh, it sounds like a person laughing. I read an article that said that movie companies have used the Kookaburras laugh when they needed "monkey" sounds in jungle scenes. If you click on the attached YouTube video you can hear the "laughing." I really like listening to a bunch of them "laughing", kinda puts a smile on my face.
And now for some information about this bird:
Kookaburras are best known for their unmistakable call, which sounds uncannily like loud, echoing human laughter – good-natured, but rather hysterical, merriment and maniacal cackling.They are generally not closely associated with water, and can be found in habitats ranging from humid forest to arid deserts, but also in suburban and residential areas with tall trees or near running water and where food can be searched for easily. I've seen them on my balcony. Something I didn't know was that they are carnivores, they eat meat and they eat grass and seeds. They eat insects, small reptiles, snakes, mice and the thing I hate, they eat small birds :( they also eat meat, if you throw them some raw meat they will eat it. You may wonder how does a bird eat these things, well I've seen them do it, they whack their meal on a hard surface.
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