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Kookaburra


I spotted a group of kookaburras at the botanic gardens in Sydney recently.  I don't think of them as city birds but I guess we see or hear their characteristic laugh just about everywhere.

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  1. I'm always hearing them, but haven't seen one in our yard for a while. Love the Kookas! They always make me feel happy with their cheerful "laugh"

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    1. I haven't heard them much in the mountains lately. Have never really seen them a lot in the garden. They used to steal the fish from the fish pond.

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  2. Oh, yes, we heard one at the Caravan Park, too. We have one (!One lonely fella!) at the zoo here - he never "laughs", certainly...

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    1. Poor kookaburra. I am told the like company not be left alone.

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  3. I love them, even when they wake me at sun up 😊 so cute.

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    1. I hear them mostly in the evening not the morning at Kandos.

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  4. They are such cute birds, love to hear their laugh too :)

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    1. I wonder if we smile when we hear them because we have been told their call is a laugh. What if we had been told it was a cackle or something less pleasant.

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  5. A strange name, but quite a pretty bird.

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    1. I thought I would check up the origin of the name. Apparently it is from the aboriginal Wiradjuri tribe, onomatopoeic of its call."

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