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the bird whose laugh is actually a threat to trespass elsewhere
means A large kingfisher native to Australia and New Guinea, famous for its loud cackling call that sounds uncannily like raucous human laughter.
from The word comes from Wiradjuri, an Aboriginal language of New South Wales, where it was something like 'guuguubarra' — an imitation of the bird's own raucous call. English borrowed it in the 19th century, smoothing the sound into 'kookaburra.' So the name, like the laugh, is the bird describing itself.
- that laugh
- It's a territorial warning, not amusement
- giant kingfisher
- World's largest, yet rarely fishes
- snake killer
- Beats prey against branches before eating
- dawn chorus
- Families cackle together at sunrise and dusk
- jungle myth
- Hollywood added its call to fake rainforests
for instance
laughing kookaburra — native to eastern australia, famous for distinctive laughing call heard across woodlands
blue-winged kookaburra — found in northern australia and southern new guinea, smaller species with blue wing coverts