I am SO sure that my local kookaburra knows I’m obsessed with him because anytime I hear him or see him in my backyard I’m running and pressing my face (and phone camera) to the glass with the giddiest smile on my face.

Also he’s looked right at me with all the judgement a bird with mocking laughter for birdsong can have. I love him.

Illustrated Sketches of Natural History: Consisting of Descriptions and Engravings of Animals. Second Series. 1864.

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Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

Laughing kookaburras don’t need a gender reveal party; the sex of their offspring is almost always determined by the order in which the eggs are laid and whether or not the parents had any helpers. The first-laid eggs are almost always male, and the second are almost always female. Nests that have helpers are also far more likely to produce males than those without.

(Image: A laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae) with a treat by Daniel Kurek)

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Laughing kookaburras (Dacelo novaeguineae)

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“He's not the same bird since he had an audition on T.V.”

“Who the hell does he think he is - The Voice of Australia?”

The Bulletin, Dec 26, 1956; The Bulletin, Feb 22 1961

I find it so fucking funny that a nickname for kookaburras is “laughing jackass” bc I mean

Look at this little shit. You just know whoever saw them tripped & fell, and heard them laughing at them, and was like “you knOW WHAT”

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Kookaburra. Ethleen Palmer. 1936. Multi-plate linocut printed on Japanese paper.

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Kookaburra Feeding Time

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after kookaburras feeding. #birds #bird sounds, #youtubeshorts

after hearing a song about kookaburras for years, I just found out what they sound like! It really is like a laugh.