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Ada @lemmy.blahaj.zone

2y ago

Laughing Kookaburra, Brisbane Australia

Image description: A brown and white kookaburra sitting on a wooden hand rail with a piece of meat in its beak

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Kookaburra bro!
Used to live in The Gap and had a couple magpie bros that eventually would sit on our shoulders and stuff. They're very trusting after a few days of feeding and contact.
Just don't let them in the house, they'll start raiding 👍
- I've had possums and scrub turkeys do that already! I'm wise to them now :)

I had to draw the little guy.
- 🐦 ❤️

I was in camping in Florida three days ago and I swear I heard one of this birds. I heard a loud monkey noise relatively close to me. I know they aren't native to the area but what else sounds like a monkey like that.
- I've never heard a kookaburra described as sounding like a monkey before, but now that you say it, yeah, I can see it...
  Maybe you have birds that have escaped captivity in your area?
  
  Every time at the zoo I have the thought "what the hell kind of monkey is that!?" Every time, kookaburra.
  
  I looked it up and it was likely a barred owl. I definitely heard a barred owl that night, did not know they also make monkey calls.

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