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One more day until 2020 ends!!
2019: Stay away from negative People
2020: Stay away from positive people
According to the Chinese Zodiac, 2020 was the Year of the Rat🐭 ...and it will last till February!!
So we've been spending the entire year holed up, only briefly leaving to get food, running at the sight of other humans, and transmitting infection.
Thanks for your visit and comments, much appreciated! Have a great day!
The last time I photographed a laughing kookaburra, I was in Australia ... Pandemic obliges, I was closer ... to a bird park, (Parc des Oiseaux, Villars-les-dombes, France), and I met this amazing character who seemed to take pleasure in being observed.
The laughing kookaburra is well known both as a symbol of Australia’s birdlife and as the inspirational “merry, merry king of the bush” from the children’s song.
According to an Aboriginal legend, the kookaburra's famous chorus of laughter every morning is a signal for the sky people to light the great fire that illuminates and warms the earth by day. The legend captures the imagination, but the true function of the familiar cacophony is to advertise the territory of this bold bird.
The Laughing Kookaburra is the largest of the kingfisher family, but unlike most of its relatives, it is sedentary and occupies the same territories the year round. Before spring breeding season, when family groups adjust their boundaries, an observer can actually locate the territories by listening to the noisy choruses at dusk as each group calls in turn and awaits the replies of neighbouring groups.
Leucophaeus atricilla, Gabbiano sghignazzante Fort Myers USA
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This is a very merry couple of Laughing Kookaburras, annoucing every new day with lots of laughs before the sunrise.
(Dacelo novaeguineae)
The Laughing Gull is the dominant species on the Texas coast. They are year-long residents along the Gulf coast and up the Atlantic coastline. They breed as far north as the coast of Maine. They will winter as far south as both coasts of northern South America.
Notice how nearly identical this gull is to the Bonaparte's Gull, except the bill and legs on the BG are dark red and the eye ring is a bit more pronounced. Its call is different, too, as it does sound like a laugh.
I found this bird in Texas. Like many gulls, it didn't seem to mind people. I was happy he posed for me. The sky was overcast, so I didn't get any gleaming light on the bird, but he still presents well here.
Fort Fisher - This jetty seems to be a popular "hook-up" spot - just the other day I photographed Plovers in almost the same location! It's great for me cause I can can photograph from a slightly lower vantage point than the height of the jetty!
Laughing Kookaburra (wiki)
It was on the clothes line in our backyard this morning.
They laugh. It was slightly rainy yesterday evening and they were laughing so seriously. When they laugh, they laugh so super hard that if you hear multiple kookaburras laughing together you'll laugh so much till falling down 😆
Above Wikipedia's link or this Youtube video show seriously laughing Laughing Kookaburra
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*They're a type of kingfisher but so big.
Much bigger than our parrots.
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Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla Ft Myres Beach Florida, USA.
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