kookaburras

Exquisite tiny finches whirred and wheeled, so did sparrows and starlings, and the strong brown kingfishers called kookaburras laughed and chuckled gleefully or dived for snakes, their favorite food.

The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977

We just had time to see about 30 kangaroos and their joeys that lived in the back garden, and some kookaburras, which is a typically Australian bird with a long beak, the laughing variety makes a laugh like noise.

TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2008

But with no natural predators in Australia, the toads just got out of control and have been really harmful to the native fauna, not only pushing aside the lovely green tree frogs, but killing anything that tried to eat them, such as kookaburras and crows which are a protected species here.

Poisonous Loathesome Toad Kirsty 2007

We skywayed above the famed Three Sisters peaks, bushwalked among waterfalls and canyons, and spotted lyrebirds, cockatoos and kookaburras in the eucalyptus-forested valley.

Lea Lane: Only Have a Week? A Deluxe Quickie to Oz Lea Lane 2011

That was the year we lived on the banks of the Doo Wah Diddy Diddy and we danced the doodah day ballet in bubblegum trees with crested kookaburras until the dawn broke like crystal goblets smashed against the rocky cliffs of time.

Unday Morning sean m. poole 2011

Reading this I was immediately transported to the weatherboard house at Metung, where, in the very early morning, perched high in the branches of the enormous ghost gum that overhangs the boat-shed, a pair of extremely competitive kookaburras occasionally woke us up with a loud impromptu performance.

Archive 2009-08-01 2009

True, the bottle of T.C.P. antiseptic (slightly to the right) is a reminder of splinters, stubbed toes, barnacle cuts from the jetty, and minor sailing accidents but fortunately nobody seems ever to have been seriously injured; never to my knowledge bitten by a snake or poisonous spider, and the only local indigenous wildlife I recall are possums, kookaburras, and a lone echidna which put in an appearance in about 1976.

Archive 2009-04-01 2009

We skywayed above the famed Three Sisters peaks, bushwalked among waterfalls and canyons, and spotted lyrebirds, cockatoos and kookaburras in the eucalyptus-forested valley.

Lea Lane: Only Have a Week? A Deluxe Quickie to Oz Lea Lane 2011

Reading this I was immediately transported to the weatherboard house at Metung, where, in the very early morning, perched high in the branches of the enormous ghost gum that overhangs the boat-shed, a pair of extremely competitive kookaburras occasionally woke us up with a loud impromptu performance.

The Kookaburra 2009

True, the bottle of T.C.P. antiseptic (slightly to the right) is a reminder of splinters, stubbed toes, barnacle cuts from the jetty, and minor sailing accidents but fortunately nobody seems ever to have been seriously injured; never to my knowledge bitten by a snake or poisonous spider, and the only local indigenous wildlife I recall are possums, kookaburras, and a lone echidna which put in an appearance in about 1976.

The Trumbles at Leisure 2009