"Laughing" Australian bird

Usage examples of kookaburra.

The lyre-bird man of the story was discredited, and therefore in later years such men were never of much account in the eyes of their compatriots, while those of the kookaburra, though it is recognised as an affinity of a much later date, are always people of great importance.

Overhead, a kookaburra let loose with a burst of raucous laughter, mocking her efforts.

She named birds for him, a rogue kookaburra laughing from a cluster of trees at the edge of the paddock, a pair of wedge tail eagles circling overhead.

It was somewhat rare and beautiful, a kookaburra bird, the same kind of bird which had laughed in Original Australia on Old Old Earth.

Lord Redlady with a democratic heartiness which was so false that the workwoman Eleanor, silent all the evening, let out one wild caw of a laugh, like a kookaburra beginning to whoop in a tree.

The bristles had stuck in his throat, and a kookaburra, who had a firm grip of his tail, was making an effort to fly away with him.

When Mar arrived at the camping ground of the tribe, Tatkanna, who was only a little fellow, was very frightened, and begged his friend Quartang, the Kookaburra, to take up his quarrel.

Jack, the kookaburra, was jealous of new birds and Cocky squalled from the top of the wagon.

For a device rated at perhaps a thousand hours, the Kookaburra Beacon had long outlived the company that had produced it.

From somewhere in the bush at his back he heard the strange bird the natives called a kookaburra emit its high-pitched cackle, sounding for all the world like demented laughter, and suddenly irritated, Tench thought longingly of his impending return to England.

Not only were there more koala bears than they could have imagined, there were dingos, kookaburras, kangaroos, and evena platypus.

Instead, her eyes focused on the shadowy forms of a pair of kookaburras nestled for the night high in the branches of a gum not far away.

I saw them three kookaburras last night on the washhouse roof, hoohooing like devils.

Each morning, I awoke to hear the kookaburras laughing and the maggies warbling.

There was no one in the neighborhood, no one at all, except for the excited and sympathetic kookaburras ha-ha-ing madly in the tree above.