How To Use Kookaburra In A Sentence
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Other species include the well-known gang-gang cockatoo Callocephalon fimbriatum, glossy black cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami, superb lyrebird Menura novaehollandiae, crimson rosella Platycercus elegans, kookaburra Dacelo gigas, and satin bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus.
Greater Blue Mountains Area, Australia
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Other species include the well-known gang-gang cockatoo Callocephalon fimbriatum, glossy black cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami, superb lyrebird Menura novaehollandiae, crimson rosella Platycercus elegans, kookaburra Dacelo gigas, and satin bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus.
Greater Blue Mountains Area, Australia
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A kookaburra flies between the clusters of trees with buoyant, floating wing beats.
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I didn't know what they were, but I wondered if they might be a species of kookaburra.
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Elsewhere in the valley you might see other birds as fantastic as their names: gang-gangs, king parrots, satin bowerbirds, laughing kookaburras, and lyre-birds that dance in clearings with tails fanned out like peacocks.
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We skywayed above the famed Three Sisters peaks, bushwalked among waterfalls and canyons, and spotted lyrebirds, cockatoos and kookaburras in the eucalyptus-forested valley.
Lea Lane: Only Have a Week? A Deluxe Quickie to Oz
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Elsewhere in the valley you might see other birds as fantastic as their names: gang-gangs, king parrots, satin bowerbirds, laughing kookaburras, and lyre-birds that dance in clearings with tails fanned out like peacocks.
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And then it started to pour down rain, so I trudged back to my car like some wild-eyed prophet, taunted by the laughing kookaburras as I passed them.
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Then there are the Socceroos and Matildas in soccer, the Kookaburras and the Hockeyroos in field hockey.
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And I thought it was all cuddly wombats, koalas and kookaburras.
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Other species include the well-known gang-gang cockatoo Callocephalon fimbriatum, glossy black cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami, superb lyrebird Menura novaehollandiae, crimson rosella Platycercus elegans, kookaburra Dacelo gigas, and satin bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus.
Greater Blue Mountains Area, Australia
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Other birds include a huge American bald eagle called Liberty, buzzards, Harris hawks, vultures, laughing kookaburras and a pelican.
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Two kookaburras sat on the long arm of a gumtree, their backs to the wind, looking as if they had given up laughing for life.
MURDER SONG
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There's a kookaburra outside my window as I'm writing today.
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Two kookaburras sat on the long arm of a gumtree, their backs to the wind, looking as if they had given up laughing for life.
MURDER SONG
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The gorgeous, garish splendour of sunset pageantry flames out; the long shadows eagerly cover all; the kookaburras laugh their merry mocking good-night; the clouds fade to turquoise, green, and grey; the stars peep shyly out; the soft call of the mopoke arises in the gullies!
My Brilliant Career
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I'd never seen so many kookaburras in one place.
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Some pairs of kingfishers call in duets, and cooperative groups of kookaburras call in a chorus at dawn and dusk.
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First, kookaburras breed in nuclear family groups where a monogamous pair are assisted by up to six offspring-helpers.
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Other species include the well-known gang-gang cockatoo Callocephalon fimbriatum, glossy black cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami, superb lyrebird Menura novaehollandiae, crimson rosella Platycercus elegans, kookaburra Dacelo gigas, and satin bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus.
Greater Blue Mountains Area, Australia
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Other birds include a huge American bald eagle called Liberty, buzzards, Harris hawks, vultures, laughing kookaburras and a pelican.
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So the cassowaries, kookaburras, koalas, kangaroos, crocodiles and wallabies that one goes to Australia in the hope of seeing are all there.
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Here and there the raucous laughter of the kookaburra seemed to mock our attempt.
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Early in Raiders of the Lost Ark, the long, raucous call of an Australian kookaburra rings out in the Americas, but Budney appreciates it as homage to the corny roots of jungle-adventure movies.
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Kingfishers generally preen frequently, and anting has been observed in at least one species of kookaburra.
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The yammering kookaburra, usually so talkative, was silent, for he too was fast asleep.
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From flying foxes to laughing kookaburras and live crocodiles, they'll meet elements of nature that, for many people, are worlds away from Baltimore.
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So the cassowaries, kookaburras, koalas, kangaroos, crocodiles and wallabies that one goes to Australia in the hope of seeing are all there.
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Do film-makers just make use of the kookaburra to conjure up exotic tropical atmosphere - or are there birds with similar calls?
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Birds here are diverse and include honeyeaters, pilotbirds, cockatoos, pied currawongs, white-winged choughs, and laughing kookaburras, the largest kingfisher in Australia.
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That was the year we lived on the banks of the Doo Wah Diddy Diddy and we danced the doodah day ballet in bubblegum trees with crested kookaburras until the dawn broke like crystal goblets smashed against the rocky cliffs of time.
Unday Morning
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So the cassowaries, kookaburras, koalas, kangaroos, crocodiles and wallabies that one goes to Australia in the hope of seeing are all there.
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It is home to possums, pelicans, the duck-billed platypus, the kookaburra, kangaroos and wombats, to name just those he found for us during our adventure into paradise.
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The mascots at the Summer 2000 games in Sydney, Australia, were a platypus named Syd, an echidna called Millie, and a kookaburra called Olly.
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With its kangaroos and kookaburras, and leg-of-mutton sleeves and button boots, this is a timeless story about the warmth of family.
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The mascots at the Summer 2000 games in Sydney, Australia, were a platypus named Syd, an echidna called Millie, and a kookaburra called Olly.
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On the other side of the village is the Exmoor Falconry and Animal Farm, which not only keeps birds of prey and Shetland ponies but also has meerkats, a couple of kookaburras, and a llama.
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Then there are the Socceroos and Matildas in soccer, the Kookaburras and the Hockeyroos in field hockey.
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We still got an opossum, a red kangaroo, a Bennett wallaby, too, and millipedes, and a kookaburra, whatever that is.
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Sitting beneath fans of ferns, perfect natural sunshades, we were joined within minutes by two laughing kookaburras, a rosella and a yellow-breasted robin.
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He will be black, not the tawny colour of the female with her beautiful long kookaburra-like, chevron-marked tail feathers.
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During the day and well into the dark, the place reverberates with the sounds of bongo beats and novices practicing kookaburra noises on freshly-carved wind instruments.
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Sitting beneath fans of ferns, perfect natural sunshades, we were joined within minutes by two laughing kookaburras, a rosella and a yellow-breasted robin.
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Maybe that's what started the kookaburra laughing.
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True, the bottle of T.C.P. antiseptic (slightly to the right) is a reminder of splinters, stubbed toes, barnacle cuts from the jetty, and minor sailing accidents but fortunately nobody seems ever to have been seriously injured; never to my knowledge bitten by a snake or poisonous spider, and the only local indigenous wildlife I recall are possums, kookaburras, and a lone echidna which put in an appearance in about 1976.
Archive 2009-04-01
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A kookaburra flies between the clusters of trees with buoyant, floating wing beats.
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A few species, such as pied kingfishers and laughing kookaburras are cooperative breeders.
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Lorikeets, rosellas, kingfishers, dollarbirds, kookaburras, cockatoos and a variety of other species make the Atherton Blue Gum a very diverse birding haven.
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In a broader survey of this population of kookaburras, the youngest nestling in broods of three was killed in one third of nests.