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you are a bird lover, you must have heard about the
beautiful bird Kookaburra. Kookaburra is a kingfisher,
which has got very large size. While visiting Australia
you will get to see many of these birds. The bird is
named "Kookaburra", because the call of the
bird sounds similar to this word. Do not be surprised,
if you hear a human laughter while roaming around the
forests of Australia. It is in fact the call of this
Kookaburra, much similar to the human laughter.
The nature of the bird Kookaburra is very peculiar.
Some of the species like the Laughing Kookaburra or
Dacelo novaeguineae is a very lively and joyful bird.
On the other hand the Blue-winged Kookaburra or Dacelo
leachii is another species that is characterized with
frenzied nature and insanity. The sound of the call
of the bird is like "OOH OOH AHH AHH AHH AHH AHH"
and this sound is very much popular in Australia. In
many movies this sound has been used as the background
music when some forestry is shown. Local believe that
the bird Kookaburra can feel when a danger is about
to come or if it will be raining. So people believe
that whenever the Kookaburra laughs there must be one
of these two reasons. Spring is the month when the Kookaburras
make their nests and lay eggs. A very strange thing
about these Kookaburras is that when the little Kookaburras
grow up and learn to fly they do not fly away leaving
their parents. They continue to stay with them. Scientists
say that no other birds are known to show this kind
of behavior.
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