Laughing kookaburra hands without warning, by swooping in from a distance. People often feed them pieces of raw meat. Laughing Kookaburras are often kept in zoos. The kookaburra is also the subject of a popular Australian children's song, the "Kookaburra" which was written by Marion Sinclair in 1934. Recordings of this bird have been edited into Hollywood movies for decades - usually in jungle settings - beginning with the Tarzan series in the 1930s, and more recently in the film "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" (1997). Laughing kookaburra The laughing kookaburra ("Dacelo novaeguineae") is a bird in the kingfisher subfamily Halcyoninae. It
Greater bird-of-paradise before dusk. This mating behavior most commonly occurs between March and May, and again August through December, but can occur during other parts of the year as well. Greater bird-of-paradise The greater bird-of-paradise ("Paradisaea apoda") is a bird-of-paradise in the genus "Paradisaea". Carl Linnaeus named the species "Paradisaea apoda", or "legless bird-of-paradise", because early trade-skins to reach Europe were prepared without wings or feet by natives; this led to the misconception that these birds were beautiful visitors from paradise that were kept aloft by their plumes and never touched the earth until death. The greater bird-of-paradise is the largest member