Kookaburras

[Chilli]

Hi guys. Was out today and the Kookaburras were chatting away. Took a video of it. They were in the trees and you won't see them but you will hear them. The cows were heads down eating and because I had to cut the video down on quality to keep the length somewhat the video almost looks like just a low quality picture. If you careful you will see a cows tail move 😁
I love kookaburras, they can catch and kill and eat venomous snakes. Beautiful birds too.

 

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[DizzyDigger]

That must be a nice sound to listen to while sitting back and enjoying a cold one.

 

[tamrock]

When my youngest daughter was in like first grade they had a play and one of the songs they sang was this one.

 

[Chilli]

That must be a nice sound to listen to while sitting back and enjoying a cold one.

I love their calls. Only seen them catch a snake twice in my life. Amazing to see. They literally shake the life out of them.

 

[Chilli]

When my youngest daughter was in like first grade they had a play and one of the songs they sang was this one.

Hi. We never heard the gumdrops and monkey one as kids but this was common.
"Kookaburra sits on the telephone wire
Jumping up and down with his pants on fire
Laugh, kookaburra laugh
Kookaburra hot your pants must be"

 

[tamrock]

I love their calls. Only seen them catch a snake twice in my life. Amazing to see. They literally shake the life out of them.

I saw a crow shake a small garter snake to death one time.

 

[Chilli]

I saw a crow shake a small garter snake to death one time.

Smart birds those crows. They are the only bird I never see dead on the roadside and iv never hit one either.
What is their status where you are? They are considered an introduced pest here. It used to be a common popular thing here too back in the 60s and 70s to shoot them. It was called Crow Busting and there would be articles in shooting magazines dedicated to it. They were quite a problem for farms back then and farmers welcomed shooters on their properties. South Australia was the worst for them and till this day people from SA are still referred to as Crow eaters, they even have a major AFL footy team called the Crows.
Clever birds!

 

[tamrock]

Smart birds those crows. They are the only bird I never see dead on the roadside and iv never hit one either.
What is their status where you are? They are considered an introduced pest here. It used to be a common popular thing here too back in the 60s and 70s to shoot them. It was called Crow Busting and there would be articles in shooting magazines dedicated to it. They were quite a problem for farms back then and farmers welcomed shooters on their properties. South Australia was the worst for them and till this day people from SA are still referred to as Crow eaters, they even have a major AFL footy team called the Crows.
Clever birds!

About the only problem I've seen with crows is them eating baby birds in the nest, which is sad.

 

[Chilli]

About the only problem I've seen with crows is them eating baby birds in the nest, which is sad.

Hi. Australia is big on sheep farming. Here they are known to attack new born lambs attacking, pecking at the rear of the mother lamb birthing and pecking out the eyes of the newborn young whilst they are vulnerable and can't stand.
I don't know why but in some places its more of a problem than others, some places it isn't a problem. I think its from not a lot of things to feed on in some places so its opportunistic rather than anything aggressive.

 

[freeman]

A lot of American's have heard the Kookaburra's distinctive call but just not realised it.

It first appeared in old Johhny Weismuller Tarzan movies.

It now reveals shenanigans are going on when TV shows claim they are somewhere but the foley artists copies it from the sound library thinking it is some exotic jungle or tropical bird.

More recently the entirely scripted and staged treasure hunt show, Treasure Quest-Treasure of the Trinity kept using it as the 'team' pretended to be in deep jungle in Brazil (but were really just off the side of the road).