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Kookaburras are very large terrestrial kingfishers native to Australia and New Guinea, the name a loanword from Wiradjuri guuguubarra, which is onomatopoeic of its call. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1600 × 1200 pixel, file size: 201 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) An image I snapped of a Kookuburra posing for a Butcher Bird. ...
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Typical Classes See below Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates. ...
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Families Alcedinidae Halcyonidae Cerylidae Brachypteraciidae Coraciidae Leptosomidae Meropidae Momotidae Todidae Bucerotidae Upupidae Phoeniculidae The Coraciiformes are a group of usually colourful near passerine birds including the kingfishers, the Hoopoe, the bee-eaters, the rollers, and the hornbills. ...
Genera Actenoides Carydonax Cittura Clytoceyx Halcyon Lacedo Melidora Pelargopsis Tanysiptera Dacelo Syma Todirhamphus The tree kingfishers or wood kingfishers, family Halcyonidae, are the most numerous of the three families of birds in the kingfisher group. ...
William Elford Leach FRS (February 2, 1790 – August 26, 1836) was an English zoologist and marine biologist. ...
Binomial name Dacelo gaudichaud (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) The Rufous-bellied Kookaburra is unusual in that it occupies dense rainforests (as opposed to the open country preferred by other kookaburras) and does not live in family groups but in pairs. ...
Species Dacelo gaudichaud Dacelo leachii Dacelo novaeguineae Dacelo tyro Kookaburras are very large terrestrial kingfishers native to Australia and New Guinea. ...
Species Dacelo gaudichaud Dacelo leachii Dacelo novaeguineae Dacelo tyro Kookaburras are very large terrestrial kingfishers native to Australia and New Guinea. ...
Binomial name Dacelo tyro Gray, 1858 The Spangled Kookaburra Dacelo tyro is a little-known, but spectacular species of Kookaburra found only on the Aru Islands and the savannahs of southern New Guinea. ...
Kookaburra can mean: Kookaburra, the Australian bird Kookaburra (song), a popular nursery rhyme/song about the bird Kookaburra (rocket), an Australian sounding rocket Kookaburra Sport, a sports equipment company Kookaburra, a Cocteau Twins song from their 1985 EP Aikea-Guinea Category: ...
Families Alcedinidae Halcyonidae Cerylidae Kingfishers are birds of the three families Alcedinidae (river kingfishers), Halcyonidae (tree kingfishers), and Cerylidae (water kingfishers). ...
A loanword (or loan word) is a word directly taken into one language from another with little or no translation. ...
Wiradjuri (many other spellings; see Wiradjuri) is a Pama-Nyungan language of the Wiradhuric subgroup. ...
For the supervillain, see Onomatopoeia (comics). ...
Kookaburras are best known for their unmistakable call, which is uncannily like loud, echoing human laughter — good-natured, if rather hysterical, merriment in the case of the well-known Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae); and maniacal cackling in the case of the slightly smaller Blue-winged Kookaburra (Dacelo leachii). For other uses, see Laughter (disambiguation). ...
Binomial name Dacelo novaeguineae (Hermann, 1783) The Laughing Kookaburra, Dacelo novaeguineae, is a familiar Australian carnivorous bird of the Kingfisher family, well known for its call. ...
Species Dacelo gaudichaud Dacelo leachii Dacelo novaeguineae Dacelo tyro Kookaburras are very large terrestrial kingfishers native to Australia and New Guinea. ...
Classification and species
Kookaburras with lizard prey There are four known species of Kookaburra found in Australia, New Guinea and the Aru Islands. Image File history File linksMetadata Kookaburra-12. ...
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Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1106x1193, 265 KB) Summary This photo of a Kookaburra was taken on the 4th of December, 2004 in Pound Bend, Warrandyte, Victoria, Australia. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1106x1193, 265 KB) Summary This photo of a Kookaburra was taken on the 4th of December, 2004 in Pound Bend, Warrandyte, Victoria, Australia. ...
Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 563 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (817 × 870 pixel, file size: 166 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Albino kookaburra I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ...
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The Aru Islands (also Aroe Islands or Kepulauan Aru) are a group of about 95 low-lying islands in the Maluku province of Indonesia. ...
Unusual for close relatives, the Laughing and Blue-winged species are direct competitors in the area where their ranges overlap. This suggests that the two species, though having common stock, evolved in isolation (possibly during a period when Australia and New Guinea were more distant — see Australia-New Guinea) and were only brought back into contact in relatively recent geological times.There has been an Australian coin dedicated to the Kookaburra since 1990. For other uses, see Species (disambiguation). ...
Australia-New Guinea, also called Sahul or Meganesia, is made up of the continent of Australia and the islands of New Guinea and Tasmania. ...
Behaviour
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Kookaburra with barbecue meat scraps Kookaburras are carnivorous. They will eat lizards, snakes, insects, mice and raw meat. The more social birds will accept handouts from humans and will take raw or cooked meat (even if at high temperature) from on or near open-air barbecues left unattended. It is generally not advised to feed the birds too regularly as meat alone does not include calcium and other nutrients essential to the bird. Remainders of mince on the bird's beak can fester and cause problems for the bird. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ...
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Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2592x1944, 1861 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): User talk:Zoe Kookaburra User:Spawn Man/Your Message Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from...
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Kookaburras breed well in captivity, and when pulled from the nest and hand fed as chicks they can make quite affectionate pets. However their captive diet of mice and beef can be difficult for some people to maintain, and their noise can irritate some, and they require spacious cages or aviaries to fly about in. But when all the requirements are met they are truly a worthwhile companion pet bird. PET, see PET. A pet or companion animal is an animal that is kept by humans for companionship and enjoyment, rather than for economic reasons. ...
In the wild, Kookaburras are known to eat babies of other birds and snakes, and insects and small reptiles. In zoos, they are usually fed food for birds of prey, and dead baby chicks.
Trivia
 Kookaburra perched on a sign - Although Kookaburras are kingfishers, they do not spend most of their time near water.
- There is a song called "Kookaburra" by the Cocteau Twins, released on their EP Aikea-Guinea.
- There is a song called "Kookaburra" by John Vanderslice on 2007's Emerald City (album).
- Although the kookaburra is found in only two places in the world, the distinctive sound that it makes has found its way onto many "jungle sound" soundtracks, used in TV and movies -- no matter what part of the world the action takes place in.
Millie, once mascot of the City of Brampton, is now the Brampton Arts Councils representative. ...
The 2000 Summer Olympics or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were the Summer Olympic Games held in 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ...
This article is about the metropolitan area in Australia. ...
For other senses of this word, see echidna (disambiguation). ...
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Kookaburra (also known by its first line: Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree) is a popular Australian nursery rhyme and round about the kookaburra (an Australian bird), written by Marion Sinclair. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata KookaburraKC.JPG‎ A kookaburra i saw perched on a sign in the The Domain, Sydney Taken by KaiAdin File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata KookaburraKC.JPG‎ A kookaburra i saw perched on a sign in the The Domain, Sydney Taken by KaiAdin File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Families Alcedinidae Halcyonidae Cerylidae Kingfishers are birds of the three families Alcedinidae (river kingfishers), Halcyonidae (tree kingfishers), and Cerylidae (water kingfishers). ...
Cocteau Twins were a Scottish alternative rock band active from 1982 to 1997. ...
Aikea-Guinea is an EP by the British rock group Cocteau Twins, released on 4AD records in March 1985. ...
John Vanderslice (born in Gainesville, Florida in 1967) is an American musician, formerly of mk Ultra but now performing with his own band. ...
Emerald City is the sixth album by American singer-songwriter John Vanderslice. ...
External links - Midi song and Lyrics
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Further reading Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Dacelo novaeguineae - Sarah Legge, Kookaburra: King of the Bush, CSIRO Publishing 2004, ISBN 0-643-09063-0
- Kookaburra sketches and calls at the Australian National Botanic Gardens site.
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