Kookaburra

[rachorama]

Very cute, I just love his fuzzy little head. Those are very lovely photos, such nice quality - it looks like something out of a magazine. My dad feeds the local kookaburras mince and lamb roast sometimes. They've become quite tame. I initially told him not to do it too much as I know can be quite bad but he is old and sick and doesn't have much else that makes him happy now days. My daughter painted him a picture of the two kookaburras that visit him and he hung it up in the dinning room.

 

[Renae]

Thanks guys!

That was lovely of your daughter Rachel, they can be a friendly little bird if they keep coming back and you feed them. I rehab wild birds but haven’t gotten a Kookaburra yet, if/when I do, I have to somehow have to get the guts enough to feed baby mice and rats as well as meal worms and crickets.

 

[Kolas mum]

Hi Renae I did wildlife rescue in Cooktown (far North Queensland) for a long time and the first carer's workshop and training session a kookaburra clamped down on my thumb and wouldn't let go! It was one of the most embarrassing minute of my life. But the vet who was training us was lovely and rescued my poor thumb. It took me a while to be able to feed the kookaburras and the tawny frogmouths live food but it did get easier . I hope you are lucky enough to get one soon.

 

[Renae]

Yikes, glad your thumb was okay! I was going to look after Tawny Frogmouth, only someone got him before me (just)… was only a baby too. I hope to eventually get to look after both a Kookaburra, and a Tawny Frogmouth. I had 4 Eastern Rosella babies recently, they are so darn cute!! It was amazing seeing the 4 of them be released though.