Bird Size
With a body as big as a basketball (~45cm) the Laughing Kookaburra is the biggest of all its sister kingfisher birds in the kingfisher mob.
Bird Features, Colours, Behaviours
This bird is famous for its big laughing song that can be heard loud across any country it is on. The Kookie has beautiful dark brown eyes and wings and its wings have shining blue marks on them and there’s a bit of ochre in its tail colours. Its chest and body is mostly white with its head also white with some brown on the top and extending through its eyes. Some older Kookies have a blue and green patch on their tails closest to their bodies.
The Kookie has a deadly beak that could take off your finger but it’s not the longest beak of all the Kookie brothers! (Blue-winged Kookie is longer). The Kookie is known to take a snag from the fingers of a distracted BBQ’er. Look out!
Bird Social Behaviour
These guys usually hang in a mob with a main couple and then 1-7 other birds that help them out.
Language Area / Centre: Yugambeh | Nation: Bundjalung
Bird name: Gagaru, Gagurim, Gahgun
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Knowledge from: Clinton Brewer
Knowledge origin: Kombummeri-Ngarangwal