Laughing Kookaburra
Dacelo novaeguineae
Family: Alcedinidae (Alcedinid Kingfishers, 10 species in Australia)
Size: 45 cm
Distribution: Most of Eastern Australia plus small parts of WA and NT
Status: Common
Habitat: Open forests, woodlands
References: Simpson and Day, Reader's Digest
One of the most famous of all Australian birds.
Photo: Australia Zoo QLD
Photo: Featherdale Wildlife Park, Sydney NSW. High Resolution (1870 x 2944)
Photo: Wentworth Falls, Blue Mountains NSW
Photo: West Head, Kuring-gai Chase National Park NSW
The photo below shows a juvenile Laughing Kookaburra.
Juvenile Laughing Kookaburra. Photo: WIRES, Blue Mountains NSW
Artwork: John Gould, 'The Birds of Australia', 1848. Original Scanned Image.
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NEW: The Australian Bird Guide, by Peter Menkhorst (Author), Danny Rogers (Author), Rohan Clarke (Author), Jeff Davies (Illustrator), Peter Marsack (Illustrator), Kim Franklin (Illustrator). Revised Edition 2019. Original edition published 2017. This is a newer Australian bird field guide that I just got recently. It may be the best one out of all of them now. Though I still like the pictures better in "Simpson and Day" in terms of their artistic value, and that they just look more interesting to me than the drawings in any other bird field guide I've seen. This one has more "clinical" looking pictures. They are coloured artist-rendered drawings, not photographs. Though the more "clinical" look is meant to be more anatomically accurate, and better for identification.
The rest of the book is wonderful, with different coloured regions on the range maps, and very high quality information overall. It was the winner in its category for an Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) award for book of the year in 2018.
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