Kookaburra’s just eat and eat and eat…
Canon 5D f8 1/100s ISO 400 EF28-300L f4 IS
Its well known that the Kookaburra is the iconic bird of Australia, its less well known that it is not native to Western Australia. The fact is that Kookaburra’s only arrived in W.A. in the early 1900’s about the time of the Kalgoorlie gold rush. Since that time they have multiplied by the thousands may be even millions and in the process they have eaten their way through countless frogs, skinks, gekkos, snakes and small marsupial mammals. The kookaburra also seems to some extent to follow human settlement so along with the cats that often come with the humans the small wild life and birds really don’t stand to much chance of survival. The Kookaburra like the cat and the fox should be declared as feral and eliminated where possible and as soon as possible… This kookaburra pictured above has a skink in its beak just freshly killed.
