Cairns, Queensland, Australia

A least someone thinks my jokes are funny.

Wild South Africa

Kruger National Park

Dove feeling good after a thunder storm.

I apologize for not commenting as often as I should, due to constant electricity load shedding, local power failures and unstable to no internet service.

A wet & soggy Laughing Kookaburra. It is not all sunshine downunder!!

Taken in Florida.

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I am happy and concerned for these birds currently; happy as with the amount of rats and mice about that they'll have plenty to eat but concerned by the possibility of them eating rats and mice that have consumed poison put out to kill them.

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Edisto Beach State Park, Colleton County, South Carolina

A gull covered with droplets of rain water on a rainy morning at Fort Desoto

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"A cat is there when you call her - if she doesn't have anything better to do." - Bill Adler

Angers, France

Looking for a nice book... :)

The Hague, Solleveld, 1 December 2020.

A pair of Laughing Gulls caught in the act of breeding

Photographed on Hilton Head Island, SC, USA

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the colouring indicates first winter

Hinterland Regional Park, Australia-1821

in fact, it was more of a gripe than a laugh 😄

Laughing Kookaburra

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"The Laughing Kookaburra is not really laughing when it makes its familiar call. The cackle of the Laughing Kookaburra is actually a territorial call to warn other birds to stay away. The chuckling voice that gives this species its name is a common and familiar sound throughout the bird's range."

This link gives some recordings of this very unique sound.

wildambience.com/wildlife-sounds/laughing-kookaburra/

"Tragedy is what happens to me, comedy is what happens to you" - Mel Brooks

My first photo for 2016, taken this morning 1/1/16 at Beerwah, Glass-hose Mountains. Queensland, Australia. Happy New Year to all my FLICKR friends.

Laughing Gulls and a bit of litter in the foam.

Indian River Inlet, Delaware.

Laughing Gull at Honeymoon Island, Dunedin, FL.

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Laughing Kookaburras

Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, Australia

…. take three years to reach adult plumage. Immature birds are always darker than most similar-sized gulls….😎😎

Belvide Reservoir, Staffordshire. North American species of gull, a few make it to Europe each year. Bird was mobile around the reservoir, and usually quite distant but eventually made it to the SE corner where it was quite close in. Lifer for me.

Especie 390 de mi colección.

Species 390 of my collection

In Heidelberg

First time this guy saw an iguana walking around the outdoor restaurant. He even dropped his napkin and knife.😆

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

This mushroom was growing inside a large hollow cedar log. To photograph the gills, a mirror was place under it and the photo taken in the mirror. See first comment for photo of the group of mushrooms.

…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.

Laughing gull.

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Houlover park

Sun its in low position to make sky blue

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