kookaburra

IPA: kˈukʌbˈʊrʌ

Examples of "kookaburra" in Sentences

For all you birders out there, you can see/hear the kookaburra here.
Photo post: Hewitson 1853 Mourvedre – and Orlando (and a kookaburra)
Photo post: Hewitson 1853 Mourvedre – and Orlando (and a kookaburra) | Dr Vino's wine blog
I have plans to restock it with fish (AKA kookaburra buffet) and lilies etc when things calm down after Xmas.
We visited the vineyard at dusk and on the way back to the car, I heard a kookaburra laugh echo across the vineyard.
There is a slightly odd piece in the current issue of the New Yorker in which David Sedaris describes an intimate encounter not so long ago with a tame kookaburra over lunch in Daylesford, Victoria.
As the party was looking on, a Laughing Jackass [kookaburra] sat gazing down in respectful silence, with no desire to show disloyalty by breaking out into a premier chuckle at the rather amusing scene.
Note the earliest (and correct) form of words: The kookaburra sits on, and not in, the old gum tree, a subtle distinction, certainly, but one that gives that muscular bird a slight hint of dominance, as befits the king of the bush designation that follows in the next line.