The Kookaburra's rolling, laughing call is one of the best known-sounds in the animal World. The birds raise a wild chorus of crazy laughter as they go to roost in the tree tops at dusk, and again wake everyone with in hearing just as dawn breaks, so regularly that in the hinter lands of Australia they are known as the "bushman's clock". Australians value the Kookaburra, not only as an intriguing member of the strange fauna, but for its habit of feeding on snakes and lizards. The Kookaburra seizes snakes behind the head and kills them by dropping them from a height, or else carries them to a perch and batters them senseless with its big bill before swallowing them. Less welcome is the Kookaburra's fondness for the young of other birds, and its occasional raids on farmyards for ducklings and baby chicks. In the wild, Kookaburra are known to be partial to be young of other birds and snakes, as well as insects and small reptiles. In the zoo they are fed commercially prepared bird of prey mix and dead baby chicks. Kookaburras generally live in pairs or in small groups in open woodland. The incubate their two or four pure white eggs in hollow tree trunks, tree holes or in excavated termite nests. Both adults incubate for a period of 25 days. The young leave the next 30 days after hatching, but the parents continue to fees them for another 40 days.
Thursday, 6 February 2014
KOOKABURRA BIRD (habit)
The Kookaburra's rolling, laughing call is one of the best known-sounds in the animal World. The birds raise a wild chorus of crazy laughter as they go to roost in the tree tops at dusk, and again wake everyone with in hearing just as dawn breaks, so regularly that in the hinter lands of Australia they are known as the "bushman's clock". Australians value the Kookaburra, not only as an intriguing member of the strange fauna, but for its habit of feeding on snakes and lizards. The Kookaburra seizes snakes behind the head and kills them by dropping them from a height, or else carries them to a perch and batters them senseless with its big bill before swallowing them. Less welcome is the Kookaburra's fondness for the young of other birds, and its occasional raids on farmyards for ducklings and baby chicks. In the wild, Kookaburra are known to be partial to be young of other birds and snakes, as well as insects and small reptiles. In the zoo they are fed commercially prepared bird of prey mix and dead baby chicks. Kookaburras generally live in pairs or in small groups in open woodland. The incubate their two or four pure white eggs in hollow tree trunks, tree holes or in excavated termite nests. Both adults incubate for a period of 25 days. The young leave the next 30 days after hatching, but the parents continue to fees them for another 40 days.
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