Laughing Kookaburra

I have a really tame Kookaburra who flies straight into the house looking for a handout, will sit on your hand. Must be a hand raised bird gone wild, just so tame.

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Warrigal said:
It's not so funny at 5 am when a bunch of them visit your back yard.

:lol:
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2nd that!

There's not as many here as there were in Sydney though, rarely hear them. Like us they've become more urbanised. They know where the 'takeaways' are and are leaving the bush for the bright lights and easy pickings in towns.

There's a downside to that, they've left snakes off their menu in preference for the free handouts. Everything has a price, but the snakes must be pleased.
 
maxHR said:
I have a really tame Kookaburra who flies straight into the house looking for a handout, will sit on your hand. Must be a hand raised bird gone wild, just so tame.
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That's a great photo Max, would like a visit from a little one like that in my house! :cool:
 
There are two in the park here and you could almost set your clock with them, at 4.30am every morning they laugh away, i have had one here that was not laughing but doing the leadup roll for hours during the night for some reason, i often wondered why he would have been doing that.:hair:
 
Oh my gosh I want one! TWO, even!!! ;)

The neighbors think they're hot with their stupid dogs barking at 6am - wait 'til I get my 'burras! I'll even rig up a mike and a stack of Marshall amps ...
 
'Kookas' Phil, and the great side of it is that while you're doing that amp thing they'll sound exactly like they're actually laughing at those already p*'d off neighbours.

It's all good.
 
OK, thanks - "Kookas" - now I know what to use as a keyword search on Amazon. ;)

S&H will probably be a bit of a bother, though ...

*rubs hands together* Oh, I can't wait! :devilish:

ETA: They have them! $17.99 and FREE shipping if I spend only $7.01 more!

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Diwundrin said:
No Phil, it's a fake! Never trust the internet! If it doesn't sh*t on your doorstep it ain't the real thing.
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Fake?!? Darn!

Hmmm ... pondering your last line ... I guess the homeless guys in my neighborhood truly ARE the real thing, then. :cower:

Maybe I'll go up to PetSmart tomorrow and ask if they have any fresh kookas ... I don't want any stale ones.
 
That Guy said:
We do have the mocking bird who does its best to chirp incessantly outside your window in the middle of the night . . .
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Yeah, see, I don't think I've ever seen one either.

I only know birds by the names I give them, and those rarely coincide with Roger Tory Peterson's books ...


  • One bird here has a call that goes like "Chew it-spit, chew it-spit, chew it-spit". Guess what I named him?
  • Another one has been christened as "Dip-Dip-Dip-Dip-Dip"
  • A third has been named "Ya White?" - "Ya white? Ya white? Ya white?" He's a very racially-insensitive bird ...
  • Finally there's the weird one that goes PLONK. I'm serious, that's all he does - "Plonk!"

So early in the morning we have our daily symphony consisting of Chew it-Spit, Dip-Dip, Ya White? and Plonk - makes for quite a clatter.
 
Warrigal said:
Sifuphil, I think you have three birds and a frog.

:lol:
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Heh - that wouldn't surprise me. It sounds like no bird I ever heard before - like a huge drop of water falling into a large metal bucket ....

PLONK!

That Guy said:
That would be our friend the mocking bird at work . . .
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That could be - don't know if they get up this far though, thought they were more Southern birds ...
 
THAT is impressive - he's the Rich Little of the woodlands!

I can only imagine the stuff he'd imitate if he lived in MY neighborhood ...


"HEY BABY - WANNA' GOOD TIME?"
"FIVE-O! FIVE-O! FIVE-O!"
"GOTTA' DOLLA'? GOTTA' DOLLA'?"
"YO MAMA! YO MAMA! YO MAMA!"

:playful:
 
They're very good at it and very loud. A farmer we know told us he came racing out of the paddock shed when he heard his trail bike travelling up the road only to see it still standing near the door. It was a Lyrebird not a bike thief.
It used to whistle his dogs up too, they'd come back looking puzzled at how he beat them home.
 

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