AdaA to birding@lemmy.worldEnglish • 11 months agoLaughing Kookaburra, Brisbane Australiaimagemessage-square9arrow-up193file-text
arrow-up193imageLaughing Kookaburra, Brisbane AustraliaAdaA to birding@lemmy.worldEnglish • 11 months agomessage-square9file-text
Image description: A brown and white kookaburra sitting on a wooden hand rail with a piece of meat in its beak
minus-square@MataVatnik@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•11 months agoI was in camping in Florida three days ago and I swear I heard one of this birds. I heard a loud monkey noise relatively close to me. I know they aren’t native to the area but what else sounds like a monkey like that.
minus-squareAdaOPAlinkEnglish2•11 months agoI’ve never heard a kookaburra described as sounding like a monkey before, but now that you say it, yeah, I can see it… Maybe you have birds that have escaped captivity in your area?
minus-square@shadow@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglish3•11 months agoEvery time at the zoo I have the thought “what the hell kind of monkey is that!?” Every time, kookaburra.
minus-square@spamfajitas@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•11 months agoFun fact I learned recently, another name for the kookaburra is a laughing jackass! I guess someone didn’t like the sound.
minus-square@MataVatnik@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•11 months agoI looked it up and it was likely a barred owl. I definitely heard a barred owl that night, did not know they also make monkey calls.
I was in camping in Florida three days ago and I swear I heard one of this birds. I heard a loud monkey noise relatively close to me. I know they aren’t native to the area but what else sounds like a monkey like that.
I’ve never heard a kookaburra described as sounding like a monkey before, but now that you say it, yeah, I can see it…
Maybe you have birds that have escaped captivity in your area?
Every time at the zoo I have the thought “what the hell kind of monkey is that!?” Every time, kookaburra.
Fun fact I learned recently, another name for the kookaburra is a laughing jackass! I guess someone didn’t like the sound.
I looked it up and it was likely a barred owl. I definitely heard a barred owl that night, did not know they also make monkey calls.