Kookaburra bird

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AUSTRALIAN SAIJIKI

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Kookaburra

***** Location: Australia
***** Season: Topic
***** Category: Animal

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Explanation

Kookaburras (genus Dacelo)
are terrestrial tree kingfishers native to Australia and New Guinea. They are large to very large, with a total length of 28–42 cm (11–17 in). The name is a loanword from Wiradjuri guuguubarra, and is onomatopoeic of its call.



Kookaburras are best known for their unmistakable call, which sounds uncannily like loud, echoing human laughter – good-natured, but rather hysterical, merriment in the case of the renowned Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae); and maniacal cackling in the case of the slightly smaller Blue-winged Kookaburra (D. leachii). They are generally not closely associated with water, and can be found in habitats ranging from humid forest to arid savanna, but also in suburban and residential areas near running water and where food can be searched for easily.

Kookaburras are carnivorous. In the wild, kookaburras are known to eat the young of other birds and snakes, and insects and small reptiles and even other small birds, such as finches if they are lucky enough to catch them. In zoos, they are usually fed food for birds of prey, and dead baby chicks.

Kookaburras will eat lizards, snakes, insects, mice, other small birds, and raw meat.
The most 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 kookaburras 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.

They are territorial, and except for the Rufous-bellied often live with the partly grown chicks of the previous season. They often sing as a chorus to mark their territory.
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source :　pinshack.com

Kookaburra Steakhouse


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HAIKU

a kookaburra's shadow
disappears with a steak on the grill -
summer camp

- Shared by Chie Chilli Umebayashi -
Joys of Japan, 2012



photo source :　MisterEd

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The insane laughter
At the futile human acts.
Wise kookaburra!


Kookaburra laughs
At my futile attempts to
Catch fish for my dinner.

source : Trevor W. Hampel 2006


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Related words


. Kingfisher (kawasemi 翡翠) .


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