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# nice!
i note that your web page doesn't have a kookaburra on it.
isn't it an Australian symbol?
(I helped save b3ta! real i'm not happy 'til you're not happy, Sat 28 Jan 2012, 12:06, archived)
# Under 'L' for 'Laughing'
www.tonykeenebirds.co.uk/abirds/laughingkookaburra.html
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 28 Jan 2012, 12:14, archived)
# doh! how did i not see that?
they look a lot like kingfishers, but with a chunkier beak, no?

edit - ah fuck, just read the description! god i'm dense
(I helped save b3ta! real i'm not happy 'til you're not happy, Sat 28 Jan 2012, 12:17, archived)
# They are indeed kingfishers.
Except they don't really eat fish. Mostly lizards, frogs and insects. And bacon rind.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 28 Jan 2012, 12:19, archived)
# i'm bookmarking this page
i'm going to have to keep my eye out for some of these. all i've seen so far a kookaburras, rainbow lorikeets, pigeons, ravens and seagulls.

oh and ibis too
(I helped save b3ta! real i'm not happy 'til you're not happy, Sat 28 Jan 2012, 12:49, archived)
# Ah, the Scraggy Ibis,
also known as Bin Chicken and Swamp Chook.
Australia is a great place for birds.*


* not Adelaide.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 28 Jan 2012, 12:52, archived)
# I'm off for six days in Cairns and FNQ in March.
Serious hard-core birding with a couple of friends. Hope to see about 200 species. And not get eaten.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 28 Jan 2012, 12:54, archived)