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Photographed the Laughing Gull resting on the beach at the Gulf Harbors Beach Club on the Gulf of Mexico in the City of New Port Richey in Pasco County Florida U.S.A.
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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.
The archetypal Laughing Cow cheese comes wrapped in the individual serving-sized foiled wedges and they are packaged in a round, flat box. Consumers have to pull a little red thread around the box to open it and the foil packaging also features a red tab for opening........
This photo was captured in Paradise valley which is located in the hills behind Apollo Bay in Victoria, Australia.
As this wild Kookaburra was small with its feathers all over the place, in a nice sort of a way, I gathered it was young but maybe it was older and just having a bad hair day.
It would turn up late in the afternoon at about the same time on each of the three days we spent at Paradise Valley.
It was very comfortable in our presence and we gave it raw meat and my youngest daughter was able to pat its back . .it was lovely.
Another Kookaburra got up close and personal with my grandson, which encounter resulted in a gorgeous photo. www.flickr.com/photos/184121594@N02/48686130556/in/datepo...
The Laughing Kookaburra is a bird in the Kingfisher sub-family Halcyonine and a native of eastern Australia and is almost exclusively carnivorous, preying on a variety of small animals, lizards and snakes.
It retains the same partner for life and a breeding pair can be accompanied by up to five fully grown non-breeding offspring from previous years who assist with territory defense and help raise the parent’s new young.
Sigma 70 -300mm f4 -5.6 APO DG Macro
Black-headed gull in Winter plumage/ the head is predominantly Black in the Summer months.
The genus name Chroicocephalus is from Ancient Greek khroizo, "to colour" and kephale "head".
The specific ridibundus is Latin for "laughing" from ridere "to laugh"
(Chroicocephalus ridibundus, Syn: Larus ridibundus)
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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.
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.
Everyone Laughs with you
But when you cry, you cry alone....
Crying does not mean you are weak...
It means you have a heart..... ♥
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 Gull Leucophaeus atricilla Ft Myres Beach Florida, USA.
No post-processing done to photo, only cropped. Nikon NEF (RAW) files available. NPP Straight Photography at noPhotoShopping.com
„Der Hüftschwung“ 😆
Cosmos bipinnatus
garden cosmos
Fiederblättrige Schmuckblume (aka 'Cosmea')
2022-09-09_RAT4436, uncropped
Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla Ft Myres Beach Florida, USA.
No post-processing done to photo. Nikon NEF (RAW) files available. NPP Straight Photography at noPhotoShopping.com
Laughing gull.
No post-processing done to photo, only cropped. Nikon NEF (RAW) files available. NPP Straight Photography at noPhotoShopping.com
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=SND3v0i9uhE
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You start off by pretending
You're a dancer with grace
You wiggle till they're
Giggling all over the place
And then you get a great big custard pie in the face
Make 'em laugh
Make 'em laugh
Make 'em laugh
~ from MAKE 'EM LAUGH - Donald O'Connor, Soundtrack "Singing in the Rain"
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