Mar 18 2025 21 mins 7
The Kookaburra has to be one of Australia's most famous birds, with a call so iconic and strange that it has been used in a whole swarth of Hollywood films to evoke a feeling of the topics and the exotic, despite the fact that they do not live in that type of environment. But they're a bird of far greater interest than their call alone, so in this episode we'll see what else they have to offer.
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Notes:
- Laughing Kookaburra: https://ebird.org/species/laukoo1
- Blue-Winged Kookaburra: https://ebird.org/species/blwkoo1?siteLanguage=en_AU
- Spangled Kookaburra: https://ebird.org/species/spakoo1
- Rufous-Bellied Kookaburra: https://ebird.org/species/rubkoo1
- Shovel-Billed Kookaburra: https://ebird.org/species/shbkoo1
- Kookaburra was Flipper: https://bioacoustics.stackexchange.com/questions/746/is-this-sound-made-by-flipper-dolphin-tv-series-real
- Kookaburra in film: https://soundandthefoley.com/2013/05/30/that-jungle-sound/#:~:text=THE%20KOOKABURRA%20IN%20OTHER%20FILMS,on%20their%20way%20to%20Australia.
- Kookaburra chicks kill their siblings: https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2000/10/23/201846.htm
