| Kookaburra | |
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| Laughing Kookaburra in Tasmania, Australia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Inopinaves |
| Clade: | Afroaves |
| Order: | Coraciiformes |
| Suborder: | Halcyoni |
| Family: | Alcedinidae |
| Subfamily: | Halcyoninae |
| Genus: | Dacelo Leach, 1815 |
Kookaburras (genus Dacelo) are terrestrial kingfishers native to Australia and New Guinea. Lacedo is an anagram of Dacelo.
Three newly hatched Laughing Kookaburra chicks
An albino kookaburra
A Laughing Kookaburra with a frog in its beak in Sydney, Australia
Laughing Kookaburra with barbecue meat scraps
Species[]
A male Blue-winged Kookaburra
All kookaburras are sexually dimorphic, but this is only obvious in the Blue-winged and the Rufous-bellied, where males have blue tails, females rufous.
- Rufous-bellied Kookaburra (Dacelo gaudichaud). (southern New Guinea, Saibai island)
- Spangled Kookaburra (Dacelo tyro). (Aru Islands, southern New Guinea)
- Blue-winged Kookaburra (Dacelo leachii). (northern Australia, southern New Guinea)
- Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae). (native to eastern Australia, introduced to southwest Australia)
References[]
Further reading[]
- Legge, Sarah (2004). Kookaburra: King of the Bush. Collingwood, Vic: CSIRO Publishing. ISBN 9780643090637. OCLC 223994691.
- Kookaburra sketches and calls at the Australian National Botanic Gardens site. Archived from the original on 2008-07-20. Retrieved 2010-09-03.
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