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Forest Kingfisher

Forest Kingfisher

We are very fortunate to have both the Forest Kingfisher and the Sacred Kingfisher living in the trees on and around our property. Just being able to walk out our front door and just take a couple of steps to be able to photograph these beautiful little birds in their natural environment is beautiful. Years ago we put a very shallow frog pond in the bottom corner of our yard, the rain runoff keeps it topped up with lovely cold fresh water. Yes we have frogs in their but because we just let it do what it wanted to do...

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The Laughing Kookaburra

The Laughing Kookaburra

Everyone loves the Kookaburras. There are 2 different Kookaburras, the Laughing Kookaburra Daccelo novaeguineae which is also known as the Laughing Jackass can be found right down the east coast of Australia to Eyre Peninsula South Australia, and the Blue-Winged Kookaburra Dacelo leachii which is also known as the Barking Jackass; Howling Jackass. It can be found, coastal north west, and north, north east Australia and Islands from Shark Bay Pilbara Western Australia to 50km south west of Brisbane Queensland Kookaburras are birds in the Kingfisher subfamily Halcyoninae The Laughing Kookaburra occupies the same territory all year and they are...

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