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I have a concussed kookaburra. He must have a serious headache because I could pick him up without losing a finger. A few days R&R in my hospital cage should have him feeling better.

Date: 8 May 2006 08:12 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] makovette.livejournal.com
There's a gum tree joke here, but I'm entirely too timid to make it :D

CYa!
Mako

Date: 8 May 2006 14:38 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eleri.livejournal.com
I have the song stuck in my head...

Date: 8 May 2006 09:03 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gatorofages.livejournal.com
Wow...Hes handsome...Poor guy.

I hope hes back out terrorizing the bush soon :-)

Date: 8 May 2006 11:31 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chriswheeler.livejournal.com
Any idea about how he got that way? I saw a few battered birds limping around on the golf course last weekend, none serious enough to warant attention, although I did not see Hopalog the Magpie , who definately has a old broken wing , but has compenstated by learning to jump along the ground very quickly, and up trees.

Date: 8 May 2006 13:26 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com
I don't know what happened to him. He was just sitting on the ground and made no attempt to get away.

Date: 8 May 2006 13:32 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] walkertxkitty.livejournal.com
Never seen a kookaburra. That beak looks like it would be a force to be reckoned with! Do they use it for fruits and nuts or for insects? It looks like a distant relative to some of the woodpeckers we have around here.

Date: 8 May 2006 22:03 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com
They're a large kingfisher, but instead of fish they catch snakes and lizards.

Heal Kookaburra!

Date: 8 May 2006 13:50 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weyrdbird.livejournal.com
~Kookaburra sits in the healing cage
Boy Am I glad it's not in a rage!
Heal Kookaburra Heal Kooaburra!
Fill up your health gage!~

They're a type of kingfisher:). That looks like a blue kookaburra as opposed to a laughing kookaburra (lack of eyestripe?):

http://amonline.net.au/factsheets/laughing_kookaburra.htm

I've always wanted to watch them fish. Kingfishers are such amazing birds:D.

Re: Heal Kookaburra!

Date: 8 May 2006 22:04 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com
He's a kookaburra. We don't get the blue-winged kookaburras here.

Date: 8 May 2006 16:04 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ounceofreason.livejournal.com
"Concussed Kookaburra" would be a great name for a light punk band. In fact, their first album could well be Kookaburra Inna Box.

Date: 8 May 2006 20:21 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] starcat-jewel.livejournal.com
I wonder if it was drinking fermented guava juice, and is now hungover!

Date: 8 May 2006 23:22 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oceansedge.livejournal.com
Hey [livejournal.com profile] feychildthe's Kookaburra photo from Steve Irwin's Australia Zoo, (where they were all previously injured birds and no longer able to fly - so they had a nice treed open area where she could get really good pics) is up for an award at this year's Thompson Festival of the Arts.

She thinks they're awfully cute

Oh ... and I'm supposed to tell you that she really loved her first day working at the Zoo, she learned what Wolves and Bobcats and Lynxes eat (dead chickens and chicken parts), and got to clean gerbil and rat cages! (just to make sure she wouldn't be silly and squeamish about rodents).

Date: 8 May 2006 23:25 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oceansedge.livejournal.com
The entered picture (http://www.oceans-edge.com/Australia2005/20050715/pages/20050715-133256-jessica.htm)

The three kookaburras all in a row (http://www.oceans-edge.com/Australia2005/20050715/pages/20050715-133039-andrew.htm)

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