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Skyway Fishing Pier State Park

St. Petersburg, Florida

Nov 2019

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Rhododendron Gardens

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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

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we posed at our pier! it was soo much fun!!

here is a link to Sarah Lauren Photography's version: www.flickr.com/photos/22864451@N03/3785002455/

here is a link to Wilda Ryan

Photography's version: www.flickr.com/photos/28520950@N04/3782324388/

explored! the highest it got was 6th!!! thanks guys!!

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?

Pensacola, FL

laughing out loud

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A Laughing Gull eyes us suspiciously from across the pier.

Thanks for the visits, faves and comments its greatly appreciated.

Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson SP

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….😎😎

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

MANY THANKS FOR YOUR VISITS, COMMENTS AND FAVES

THEY ARE VERY MUCH APPRECIATED!

In the small lanes of Stone Town, in Zanzibar.

Taken in August, but it looks like first winter plumage. The bill is dark. Taken at Bolivar Flats on Bolivar Peninsula east of Galveston Island, Texas.

Laughing Gull, non-breeding adult

Leucophaeus atricilla

Maybe it didn't get the joke?

Santa Rosa County, FL

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

Laughing Gulls are not always the most joyous individuals.

Thanks for the visits, faves and comments its greatly appreciated.

This Laughing Gull that was one of many eyeing our french fries in the Florida Keys.

Thanks for the visits, faves and comments its greatly appreciated.

Houlover park

Port Aransas, Texas

I tried something different with this image. I put the 600 away and actually took this photo with my 100mm macro to experiment with some different compositions.

Sauth Carolina, Atlantic beach.

A bird with the laugh of an obnoxious king!

Merry Christmas and happy holidays! I am not feeling too merry right now, what with Charlie's passing not that long ago and also mum is not in a good way right now. I do hope you all have a great day however :-)

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

The Gambia, January 2020

Alger County, Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Australia's largest Kingfisher, a Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae), near Castlemaine, Central Victoria, Australia. These birds are named after their laughing call, which is an iconic sound of the Australian bush.

Taken at Port Stephens, NSW, Australia