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I love the sound of a kookaburra! (Original Post)
tblue37
Jan 2022
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tblue37
(68,448 posts)1. Lyre birds are cool, too:
True Dough
(27,297 posts)2. Is it kookaburra
for Cocoa Puffs??
elleng
(141,926 posts)3. Kookaburra Song Australia
multigraincracker
(38,032 posts)4. Is he sitting in an
Ole Gum tree?
FoxNewsSucks
(11,913 posts)6. Of course,
merry merry king of the bush is he. . .
Talitha
(8,150 posts)5. When does it breathe?
That's a helluva long song!
2naSalit
(103,805 posts)7. I always wondered what they sounded like...
And I always wondered what that sound was in videos whenever I heard it. Two mysteries solved!
I_UndergroundPanther
(13,385 posts)8. I love them too
But listening to the kookabura's call I just imagined a parent stepping on a lego in the middle of the night followed by the kids laughter.
Fla Dem
(27,763 posts)9. kookaburra sits in the old gum tree, merry, merry king of the bushes he.
Laugh Kookaburra, Laugh Kookaburra
How gay your life must be.
Sang this song when I was a Brownie, at Girl Scout camp. Many, many, many years ago!
Now I know what a Kookaburra's laugh sounds like.
bikebloke
(5,262 posts)10. When I was biking up the east coast of Australia...
I used to hear them all the time.