Dacelo
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This bird, the world’s largest Kingfisher species, is famous as one of Australia’s icons. Its call is used as an identifier by Radio Australia so it’s probably known all over the world by shortwave listeners. Dacelo novaeguineae
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Wet Kookaburra / Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae) / Large terrestrial kingfishers native to Australia and New Guinea
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Laughing Kookaburra Dacelo novaeguineae. Photo taken at Forster, NSW.
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Blossom’s_Photo_Gallery Blue-Winged Kookaburra (Dacelo leachii), the North Western (Race clifoni). Also known as the Barking or Howling Jackass or Leach’s Kookaburra. Fern Gully Camp, Bell Gorge, Western Australia. Sets of Two: Blue-Winged Kookaburra #1 / Blue-Winged Kookaburra #2 / Ricoh XRP / 400 ASA Fujifilm
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Blossom’s_Photo_Gallery Blue-Winged Kookaburra (Dacelo leachii), the North Western (Race clifoni). Also known as the Barking or Howling Jackass or Leach’s Kookaburra. Fern Gully, Bell Gorge, Western Australia. Sets of Two: Blue-Winged Kookaburra #1 / Blue-Winged Kookaburra #2 / Ricoh XRP / 400 ASA Fujifilm
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Laughing Kookaburra – Dacelo novaeguineae
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Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae) Description / The Laughing Kookaburra is instantly recognisable in both plumage and voice. This large member of the kingfisher family measures 40 – 45 cm in length. It is generally off-white below, faintly barred with dark brown, and brown on the back and wings. The tail is more rufous, broadly barred with black. There is a conspicuous dark brown eye-stripe through the face. / The chuckling voice that gives this species its English name is a common and familiar sound throughout the bird’s range. The loud ‘koo-koo-koo-koo-koo-kaa-kaa-kaa’ is often sung in a chorus with other individuals. The Laughing Kookaburra also has a shorter ‘koooaa’, which is normally given when accompanied by other members of its family group. / Distribution and Habitat / The Laughing Kookaburra occurs throughout eastern Australia. It has also been introduced to Tasmania and the extreme south-west of Western Australia, as well as New Zealand. It inhabits most areas where there are suitable trees. In the central north and north-west of Australia it is replaced by the Blue-winged Kookaburra. The two overlap in range throughout Queensland, although the Blue-winged Kookaburra tends to occupy the coastal areas. / Food and feeding / Laughing Kookaburras feed mostly on insects, worms and crustaceans, although small snakes, mammals, frogs and birds may also be eaten. Prey is seized by pouncing from a suitable perch. Small prey is eaten whole, but larger prey is killed by bashing it against the ground or tree branch. Laughing Kookaburras often become quite tame around humans and will readily accept scraps of meat. This ‘pre-processed’ food is still beaten against a perch before swallowing. / Breeding / Laughing Kookaburras breed from August to January. The birds are believed to pair for life. The nest is a bare chamber in a naturally occurring tree hollow or in a burrow excavated in an arboreal (tree-dwelling) termite mound. Both sexes share the incubation duties and both care for the young. Other Laughing Kookaburras, usualy offspring of the previous 1-2 years, act as ‘helpers’ during the breeding season. Every bird in the group shares all parenting duties.
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Laughing Kookaburra Dacelo novaeguineae. Australia’s largest kingfisher. They have a raucous ‘koo-koo-ka-ka-kook’ chorus which most people in Australia would be familiar with. Photo taken at Cape Hillsborough National Park near Mackay, Queensland.
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Blue-winged Kookaburra at Crossing Pool in Millstream-Chichester National Park in the Pilbara in Northwest Western Australia – Copyright Blue Gum Pictures 2006
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Laughing Kookaburra / Dacelo novaeguineae / Wandilo near Mount Gambier / South Australia Copyright Wayne Bigg / All Rights Reserved. / Do not use, replicate, manipulate, redistribute, or modify my photography without my express consent.
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Blossom’s_Photo_Gallery Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae) The largest Australian kingfisher, the kookaburra has a massive bill, a brown stripe through the eyes and over the crown, off-white head and underparts. It is mottled light blue on the wings and has brown bars on the tail. Its size is to 47cm. / Family members live in the same territory year-round and reinforce the boundaries at the beginning of the breeding season, calling together and awaiting the response of neighbours. Young stay with their parents for up to 4 years helping to the offspring. They hunt from a perch, staring at the ground and fluttering down to catch prey. / They breed from September to January and lay 1-4 eggs in a nest in a tree hollow or termite mound. The female and family helpers incubate the eggs and care for the young who fledge in about 5 weeks. / Their call is raucous laughing and their diet consists of reptiles, rodents, birds, insects and other invertebrates. / They inhabit Sclerophyll forests, woodlands and parks. The Kookaburra is a great Australian icon!
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This trio of very smug looking Dacelo novaeguineae (Kookaburras) was photographed not long after sunrise at Shelley Beach in Port Macquarie , NSW, Australia on a wonderful autumn day. The Port Macquarie Panthers Camera Club met there for a sunrise photography session followed by a BBQ breakfast. A great time was had by all including one of the Kookaburras. As our President was holding a tray of very tasty 30cm long sausages, all ready for cooking, one of these enterprising birds swooped out of nowhere, snatched a sausage from the tray and headed for the trees. After bashing the poor hapless sausage against a branch, as they do to their usual prey, this greedy bird proceeded to down the whole 30cm of raw sausage. The guilty looking, gutsy one is on our right. Fuji S9600: f/8 @ 1/150sec. / Lightroom & Photoshop CS3. Visit the Aussie Birds collection in my BubbleSite for more fine feathered friends. Enjoy! AUSSIE BIRDS / (Click the links!) Dacelo novaeguineae – It’s Alright for YOU to Laugh! / Dacelo novaeguineae / Dacelo novaeguineae / Gymnorhina tibicen – Indifference / Ardea alba / Butorides striatus – Rufous Morph / Butorides striatus – Rufous Morph / Pandion haliaetus / Pandion haliaetus / Cacatua roseicapilla / Sterna hirundo / Sterna bergii- / Sterna bergii & Anhinga novaehollandiae- / Larus novaehollandiae / Larus novaehollandiae / Larus novaehollandiae / Cygnus atratus / Colluricincla harmonica / Meliphaga lewinii / Porphyrio porphyrio, Gallinula tenebrosa & Anas castanea / Porphyrio porphyrio / Porphyrio porphyrio / Gallinula tenebrosa / Gallinula tenebrosa & Threskiornis molucca / Gallinula tenebrosa & Threskiornis molucca / Dromaius novaehollandiae / Phylidonyris nigra / Boorganna Silhouette / Rhipidura leucophrys / Anthochaera chrysoptera /
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It’s amazing what you can find on a wildflower hunt! This very good looking specimen of a male Dacelo novaeguineae (Kookaburra) was photographed along the Ocean Drive Fire Trail in Queen’s Lake Nature Reserve , North Haven, NSW, Australia, about a thirty minute drive south of Port Macquarie . I was on safari again with two of my Port Macquarie Panthers Camera Club mates who wandered off ahead while I photographed some wild grass heads. When I had finished I looked across the track and saw this fine feathered fella sitting up in a tree watching every move I made. I set my camera up for a possible shot and slowly sauntered along, getting closer to the tree. Monsieur Kookaburra never even flinched when I eventually got as close as two meters (six feet) away so I took my time and bagged a few shots as he posed quite readily for me. I kept talking softly to him as I went about my business and he followed me as I moved into different positions trying to get the best shot in the best light. He was the most friendly, helpful, fearless Kookaburra I have yet encountered. I used the pop-up flash at full power to throw at least a bit of light into the beetle-browed eye of my flying model as no matter which way he turned his head his eye was in shadow. Fuji S9600: Manual setting of f/5 @ 1/800sec, Manual focus, Hand held. / Lightroom 1.1 & Photoshop CS3. Visit the Aussie Birds collection in my BubbleSite Gallery for more fine feathered friends. UPDATE: / 10-09-08 / This fine feathered fella has been featured in the New South Wales Photography Group. UPDATE: / 28-09-08 / This fine feathered fella has been featured in the Australian Wildlife Group. Enjoy! AUSSIE BIRDS / (Click the links!) Dacelo novaeguineae – Kaptivated Kookaburra / Dacelo novaeguineae / Dacelo novaeguineae / Gymnorhina tibicen – Indifference / Ardea alba / Butorides striatus – Rufous Morph / Butorides striatus – Rufous Morph / Cacatua roseicapilla / Pandion haliaetus / Pandion haliaetus / Sterna hirundo / Sterna bergii- / Sterna bergii & Anhinga novaehollandiae- / Larus novaehollandiae / Larus novaehollandiae / Larus novaehollandiae / Cygnus atratus / Colluricincla harmonica / Meliphaga lewinii / Porphyrio porphyrio, Gallinula tenebrosa & Anas castanea / Porphyrio porphyrio / Porphyrio porphyrio / Gallinula tenebrosa & Threskiornis molucca / Gallinula tenebrosa / Gallinula tenebrosa & Threskiornis molucca / Dromaius novaehollandiae / Phylidonyris nigra / Boorganna Silhouette / Rhipidura leucophrys / Anthochaera chrysoptera /
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Blossom’s_Photo_Gallery The Laughing Kookaburra – An Aussie Icon!! Scientific name: Dacelo novaeguineae / Family: Halcyonidae Description: / The Laughing Kookaburra is instantly recognisable in both plumage and voice. It is generally off-white below, faintly barred with dark brown, and brown on the back and wings. The tail is more rufous, broadly barred with black. There is a conspicuous dark brown eye-stripe through the face. It is one of the larger members of the kingfisher family.
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AKA the Australian Laughing Kookaburra / Shot 15.8.2008 with a Powershot a650is 12mp
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It’s amazing what you can find on a wildflower hunt! This very good looking specimen of a male Dacelo novaeguineae (Kookaburra) was photographed along the Ocean Drive Fire Trail in Queen’s Lake Nature Reserve , North Haven, NSW, Australia, about a thirty minute drive south of Port Macquarie . What I really like about this one is the sinuous way the bird is perched on the equally sinuous branch. I was on safari again with two of my Port Macquarie Panthers Camera Club mates who wandered off ahead while I photographed some wild grass heads. When I had finished I looked across the track and saw this fine feathered fella sitting up in a tree watching every move I made. I set my camera up for a possible shot and slowly sauntered along, getting closer to the tree. Monsieur Kookaburra never even flinched when I eventually got as close as two meters (six feet) away so I took my time and bagged a few shots as he posed quite readily for me. I kept talking softly to him as I went about my business and he followed me as I moved into different positions trying to get the best shot in the best light. He was the most friendly, helpful, fearless Kookaburra I have yet encountered. I used the pop-up flash at full power to throw at least a bit of light into the beetle-browed eye of my flying model as no matter which way he turned his head his eye was in shadow. Fuji S9600: Manual setting of f/5 @ 1/800sec, Manual focus, Hand held. / Lightroom 1.1 & Photoshop CS3. Visit the Aussie Birds collection in my BubbleSite Gallery for more fine feathered friends. Enjoy! AUSSIE BIRDS / (Click the links!) Dacelo novaeguineae – Posing Kooka / Dacelo novaeguineae / Dacelo novaeguineae / Gymnorhina tibicen – Indifference / Ardea alba / Butorides striatus – Rufous Morph / Butorides striatus – Rufous Morph / Cacatua roseicapilla / Pandion haliaetus / Pandion haliaetus / Sterna hirundo / Sterna bergii- / Sterna bergii & Anhinga novaehollandiae- / Larus novaehollandiae / Larus novaehollandiae / Larus novaehollandiae / Cygnus atratus / Colluricincla harmonica / Meliphaga lewinii / Porphyrio porphyrio, Gallinula tenebrosa & Anas castanea / Porphyrio porphyrio / Porphyrio porphyrio / Gallinula tenebrosa & Threskiornis molucca / Gallinula tenebrosa / Gallinula tenebrosa & Threskiornis molucca / Dromaius novaehollandiae / Phylidonyris nigra / Boorganna Silhouette / Rhipidura leucophrys / Anthochaera chrysoptera /
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Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae) greeting the campsite. Castle Rock camp ground, Girraween National Park, Queensland, Australia.
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Blossom’s_Photo_Gallery The Laughing Kookaburra – An Aussie Icon!! My first collaboration!! The very lovely Sarah kindly put my Kookaburra through a fractalius filter. I am so very thrilled with the result!! Please check out Sarah_Trangmar’s wonderful Portfolio!!! The Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae), is instantly recognisable in both plumage and voice. It is generally off-white below, faintly barred with dark brown, and brown on the back and wings. The tail is more rufous, broadly barred with black. There is a conspicuous dark brown eye-stripe through the face. It is one of the larger members of the kingfisher family.
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Blossom’s_Photo_Gallery Aussie Kookaburra Hann River Roadhouse, Cape York Peninsula, Far North Queensland, Australia. As Is – Canon PowerShot A650 IS 100% of proceeds received from Redbubble in respect to sales of “Aussie Kookaburra” will be donated to “thegreataustraliancancerbushwalk” for the Cancer Council. Please check out Michael Mitchell’s website thegreataustraliancancerbushwalk Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae) The largest Australian kingfisher, the kookaburra has a massive bill, a brown stripe through the eyes and over the crown, off-white head and underparts. It is mottled light blue on the wings and has brown bars on the tail. Family members live in the same territory year-round and reinforce the boundaries at the beginning of the breeding season, calling together and awaiting the response of neighbours. Young stay with their parents for up to 4 years helping to the offspring. They hunt from a perch, staring at the ground and fluttering down to catch prey. They breed from September to January and lay 1-4 eggs in a nest in a tree hollow or termite mound. The female and family helpers incubate the eggs and care for the young who fledge in about 5 weeks. Their call is raucous laughing and their diet consists of reptiles, rodents, birds, insects and other invertebrates. They inhabit Sclerophyll forests, woodlands and parks. Art_4_Charity_Calendars 100% of the proceeds received from Redbubble in respect to sales of my “Cape York Calendars” will be donated to “thegreataustraliancancerbushwalk” for the Cancer Council.
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Taken at Melbourne Zoo / The Blue-winged Kookaburra, Dacelo leachii, is a very large species of kingfisher with a total length of around 40 cm. Compared to the related Laughing Kookaburra, it is smaller, lacks a dark mask, has more blue in the wing, and (usually) a light-coloured eye. It is sexually dimorphic, with a blue tail in the male, and a rufous tail with blackish bars in the female. The Blue-winged Kookaburra has a distribution from southern New Guinea and the moister parts of northern Australia, to southern Queensland across the Top End, and as far down the Western Australian coast as the Shark Bay area. / Widespread and common throughout its large range, the Blue-winged Kookaburra is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. / Wikipedia / D300. Lens :80-400mm, VR ED Nikkor. / 300mm, 1/400s, f/5.3, ISO: 500
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Kookaburra at Sherbrooke Forest, Victoria, Australia. / Kookaburras (genus Dacelo) (or Cookaburras) are large to very large (total length 28-42 cm/11-17 in) terrestrial kingfishers native to Australia and New Guinea, the name a loanword from Wiradjuri guuguubarra. Kookaburras are best known for their unmistakable call, which is uncannily like loud, echoing human laughter — good-natured, if rather hysterical, merriment in the case of the well-known Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae); and maniacal cackling in the case of the slightly smaller Blue-winged Kookaburra (D. leachii). They are generally not closely associated with water, and can be found in habitats ranging from humid forest to arid savanna, but also in suburban and residential areas near running water and where food can be searched for easily. D300. Lens: 105mm, 2.8G Nikkor ED IF VR / 95.0mm, 1/160s, f/7.1, ISO:200
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Kookaburra at Sherbrooke Forest, Victoria, Australia. / Kookaburras (genus Dacelo) (or Cookaburras) are large to very large (total length 28-42 cm/11-17 in) terrestrial kingfishers native to Australia and New Guinea, the name a loanword from Wiradjuri guuguubarra. Kookaburras are best known for their unmistakable call, which is uncannily like loud, echoing human laughter — good-natured, if rather hysterical, merriment in the case of the well-known Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae); and maniacal cackling in the case of the slightly smaller Blue-winged Kookaburra (D. leachii). They are generally not closely associated with water, and can be found in habitats ranging from humid forest to arid savanna, but also in suburban and residential areas near running water and where food can be searched for easily. D300. Lens: 80-400 Nikkor ED IF VR / 400mm, 1/320s, f/7.1, ISO:200
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© Copyright 2009 Andrew Trevor-Jones Kookaburra, Dacelo novaeguineae, at Glenbrook, New South Wales, Australia. Nikon D300, Nikkor 200mm f/4, monopod ISO 640, 1/160s, f/4.2
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Taken at Melbourne Zoo / The Blue-winged Kookaburra, Dacelo leachii, is a very large species of kingfisher with a total length of around 40 cm. Compared to the related Laughing Kookaburra, it is smaller, lacks a dark mask, has more blue in the wing, and (usually) a light-coloured eye. It is sexually dimorphic, with a blue tail in the male, and a rufous tail with blackish bars in the female. The Blue-winged Kookaburra has a distribution from southern New Guinea and the moister parts of northern Australia, to southern Queensland across the Top End, and as far down the Western Australian coast as the Shark Bay area. The scientific name commemorates the British zoologist William Elford Leach. Widespread and common throughout its large range, the Blue-winged Kookabura is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. / Nikon D300. Lens Nikkor 80-400mm ED VR / 210mm, f/5.3, 1/250s, ISO: 1600
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