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Watching birds from the deck of my brother's place in Engadine, NSW

…the laughing gull is the most dependable ally of the inshore fisher due to the fact that it prefers to steal rather than work…😎😎

I learnt a new thing about Black-Headed Gulls today! The species-specific part of their scientific name (Chroicocephalus ‘ridibundus’) means ‘laughing ‘ and comes from their ‘ke-ke-ke’ and ‘kverarrr’ calls. In view of this, the Black-Headed Gull is referred to as the ‘laughing’ gull in other languages, such as German.

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Houlover park

 

Sun its in low position to make sky blue

Laughing gull.

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Skyway Fishing Pier State Park

St. Petersburg, Florida

Nov 2019

 

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The most iconic bird of Australia, the Laughing Kooaburra, is basically a large robust kingfisher. Its loud cackling laughter is an indispensible part of the dawn orchestra in the Australian bush.

Laughing Gull Ft. Myres Beach Florida, USA.

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Laughing Kookaburra

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The great 'grab' shot. I saw the bird coming through the trees and bushes, and thought, Why Not?

 

++ The amazing, undocumented D500 "Eye Focus" technology did the rest.

A shirtless one-year-old boy bursts into laughter as his older sister cracks a joke while he is sipping from a small bottle a refreshing cold probiotic drink.

 

Captured in warm afternoon at a village in Subic, Zambales, Philippines.

Panasonic Lumix DC-G9

Panasonic AF 2.8/35-100 Power OIS II

Skyway Fishing Pier State Park

St. Petersburg, Florida

Nov 2019

 

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Gold Coast, Australia

This fish was no laughing matter. He was never able to successfully put it away...

Australian Laughing Kookaburra like to pop in for a visit especially when there is food around.

Not sure if they were kissing or the one on the left was 'laughing' too much 😃

Kookaburra on Dirt Bush Road at Patonga on the Central Coast of NSW, Australia

Someone tell me why they are called Laughing Gulls when they don't laugh.

i had to post it. i look like an idiot.

 

but i was laughing and laughing is good, right?

Bahía de la Ánimas, Cartagena de indias, Colombia.

 

Leucophaeus atricilla

(Laughing gull / Gaviota reidora americana)

 

The laughing gull (Leucophaeus atricilla) is a medium-sized gull of North and South America. Named for its laugh-like call, it is an opportunistic omnivore and scavenger. It breeds in large colonies mostly along the Atlantic coast of North America, the Caribbean, and northern South America.

 

The two subspecies are: L. a. megalopterus – which can be seen from southeast Canada down to Central America, and L. a. atricilla which appears from the West Indies to the Venezuelan islands. The laughing gull was long placed in the genus Larus until its present placement in Leucophaeus, which follows the American Ornithologists' Union.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughing_gull

A Laughing Gull eyes us suspiciously from across the pier.

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Australian Laughing Kookaburra like to pop in for a visit especially when there is food around.

Port Aransas Jetty, Port Aransas, Nueces County, Texas

…. Nonbreeding adults have a bit of black smudging behind the eye….😎😎

She thinks you must just be jealous of her fluffy pink stool. Yes, that's it. You couldn't possibly be laughing at her. :)

 

Yesterday's Crazy Tuesday group theme was Negative Space and, as usual, I tried a few different ideas. I'm beginning to think I must have a split personality. The image I chose to post was the grown up version. I'll leave you to decide what this one is. :)

A juvenile Laughing Gull in immature plumage.

Juvenile Seagulls are very challenging to identify. They go through several plumage transitions during the first couple of years until they finally reach their dramatically different adult plumage.

Fish Haul Beach, Atlantic Ocean, Port Royal Sound

Hilton Head Island, SC, USA

  

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In the small lanes of Stone Town, in Zanzibar.

Laughing kookaburra on power line, Jerrabomberra wetlands, ACT, September, 2011.

Port Aransas Jetty, Port Aransas, Nueces County, Texas

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