Laughing Kookaburra
Dacelo novaeguineae
Aves
COMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- 10-20 yrs
- Size
- Medium
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Activity
- Diurnal
- Social
- Family Group
- Biome
- Temperate forest
- Range
- Australia
- Movement
- Flight
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Speed
- Status
- Common
About
The Laughing Kookaburra is the world's largest kingfisher, native to eastern Australia and southern New Guinea. Despite belonging to the kingfisher family it rarely fishes—instead ambushing snakes, lizards, and large insects from a perch with its powerful dagger bill, and greeting each dawn with its iconic booming call.
Life cycle
- 1.eggA clutch of eggs is incubated in the nest, kept warm by a brooding parent until the chicks pip free.
- 2.hatchlingA naked or downy hatchling is fed in the nest by its parents.
- 3.juvenileA feathered juvenile fledges from the nest and learns to fly and forage.
- 4.adultFully grown with adult plumage.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- Family
- Alcedinidae
- Genus
- Dacelo
- Species
- Dacelo novaeguineae