Kookaburra Sport by many top international players such Liam De Young, Charlotte Craddock, Madonna Blyth and Marsha Marescia. Flagship stick models include the Phoenix L-Bow and the Dragon M-Bow stick. The Kookaburra Dimple Elite hockey ball has been used in all Olympic Games since 1984. The following cricket players have endorsement deals with Kookaburra: — Kahuna The following hockey players have endorsement deals with Kookaburra: Kookaburra Sport Kookaburra is an Australian sports equipment company, specialising in cricket and field hockey equipment, named after the Australian kingfisher. The company notably manufactures the most widely used brand of ball used in One-day internationals and
Wilson's bird-of-paradise Wilson's bird-of-paradise The Wilson's bird-of-paradise ("Diphyllodes respublica") is a species of passerine bird of the family Paradisaeidae. The first footage of the Wilson's bird-of-paradise ever to be filmed was recorded in 1996 by David Attenborough for the BBC documentary Attenborough in Paradise. He did so by dropping leaves on the forest floor, which irritated the bird into clearing them away. The controversial scientific name "respublica" of this species was given by Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Napoleon's nephew and a republican idealist. The habit of zoologists at that time to dedicate newly discovered species to some king, queen or aristocrat deeply irritated