Attack of the Kookaburra....

I just love the strange-sounding names of Australian animals, Calais. I remember hearing the sound of the kookaburra from a nature program I once watched on tv. It is distinctive-I'll grant you that. I read a novel about Australia many years ago. I think it was called The Fatal Shore. It was very interesting. Come to think of it I have read a few novels about Australia.

Hi Calais, I just listened to the Kookaburra laugh on an internet site and while I would find that a cool sound at times I think at other times I would find it annoying. From your picture it looks like you get colorful birds in the land down under. I guess the same could be said for all your wildlife. My wife has bird feeders all over the front yard and all our birds look boring by comparison. Too bad they dont have a volume control. Take care, Terry

We get the kooaburras outside our house occassionally. Normally the sit on power lines. They sit in a line, which loks kind of funny. The laughing noise can be very loud. The cats ignore it which surprises me. A few hundred kookaburras is fairly amazing. I don't thinkI have ever seen so many in one spot. The noise must be deafening.

Can you hear me know?.. LOL...I don't know that I have ever heard a kookaburra laugh..Maybe in a zoo, but not sure. hmmmmm.

I've only seen and heard it on TV, animal planet channel. But I never heard it directly. I can imagine when you told hundred of them LOL...that's gotta be loud.

hahaha wait till you start the barbie... they will desend on thr hot plate and knock off your meat

I didn't think there'd be so many kookaburras in the Newcastle area. Is that normal? I live in Queensland and it is a rare day we don't have at least one on the clothes hoist or on the electricity wires outside. They sing brightly almost every morning and add a lot of cheer to the day (though some people are annoyed because they are woken by them!) When we have camps in the mountains, we hear large choruses of them. When my relatives were here from England, they wanted to hear a kookaburra, but could never wake early enough. Thankfully,they did later hear one in the afternoon and were thrilled.

How weird. You wrote this last Saturday. Here, last Saurday, in the morning ...it would have been about 10 or 11am there was suddenly a lot of raucous laughter coming from the paddock across the road. I've only heard one or two solitary kookaburras since I've been here and this was 3 or 4 all going at once and seemingly trying to outdo one another. I've never experienced that before...I rememeber thinking "there must be a kookaburra meeting going on" I wonder what it meant?

I don't know if I like the kookaburra laugh cos I haven't ever heard it sweets! Maybe one day I will get a chance to visit your part of the world and find out! xxxx

Kookaburras can sure be loud, but i do love them. We very rarely see them here. We have heaps of cockatoos though. You see them in the paddocks, and there must get up to 100 of them. Best wishes to you, calais