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Kookaburra company by the pool When summer time is at its peak, I will always get an increased number of the larger bird species come in and sit a while on the pool fence. I wonder if the air around it is somehow cooler. Occasionally, I'll see a kookaburra dive bomb the surface of the pool before swiftly flying to the opposite fence where they will then preen for 20 minutes or more. When these terrestrial kingfishers dive bomb in that way - they truly look like their smaller kingfisher cousins. Alcedinidae,Australia,Aves,Coraciiformes,Dacelo novaeguineae,Geotagged,Laughing Kookaburra,Summer,fauna,new south wales,terrestrial kingfisher,vertebrate Click/tap to enlarge Promoted

Kookaburra company by the pool

When summer time is at its peak, I will always get an increased number of the larger bird species come in and sit a while on the pool fence. I wonder if the air around it is somehow cooler. Occasionally, I'll see a kookaburra dive bomb the surface of the pool before swiftly flying to the opposite fence where they will then preen for 20 minutes or more. When these terrestrial kingfishers dive bomb in that way - they truly look like their smaller kingfisher cousins.

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  1. View Ernst's profile
    Ernst
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    Alwise nice to see them. Posted 4 years ago
  2. View Patomarazul's profile
    Patomarazul
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    So beautiful! Posted 4 years ago
  3. View Luka Esenko's profile
    Luka Esenko
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    I love the noise they make! :) Posted 4 years ago
    1. View Ruth Spigelman's profile
      Ruth Spigelman
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      Friends and family here agree, one cannot help but think one is at the end of a joke when out in the garden perhaps - and a whole gang of them crack off. The noise is something else. A uniquely and unequivocally Australian sound. Posted 4 years ago

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The Laughing kookaburra

The laughing kookaburra is a bird in the kingfisher subfamily Halcyoninae. It is a large robust kingfisher with a whitish head and a brown eye-stripe. The upperparts are mostly dark brown but there is a mottled light-blue patch on the wing coverts.

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Similar species: Kingfisher, Bee-eater, Rollers
Species identified by Ruth Spigelman
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By Ruth Spigelman

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Uploaded Mar 5, 2021. Captured Jan 1, 2019 06:15 in 59 Merewether St, Merewether NSW 2291, Australia.
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  • Canon EOS 60D
  • f/2.8
  • 1/1328s
  • ISO250
  • 100mm
Captured in the summer. More summer photos.