Birds · An occasional visitor rather than a resident.

Laughing Kookaburra

Dacelo novaeguineae

First heard here 19 Sept · last heard 4 Nov · 7 days in the last year · 11 detections on record

Hear it

A clear recording song, recorded in Australia

Romuald Mikusek, xeno-canto, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Trimmed to 20 seconds.

Heard here by the park sensor, 99% match

Raw and a bit distant; the bird was somewhere in the park, not next to the microphone.

What to look for

The laughing kookaburra is a bird in the kingfisher subfamily Halcyoninae. It is a large kingfisher with a whitish head and a brown eye-stripe. The upperparts are mostly dark brown but there is a mottled light-blue patch on the wing coverts. The underparts are cream-white and the tail is barred with rufous and black. The plumage of the male and female birds is similar. The territorial call is a distinctive laugh that is often delivered by several birds at the same time, and is widely used as a stock sound effect in situations that involve a jungle setting.

Read more on Wikipedia (Laughing kookaburra)

When it has been heard

Detections per day, last 30 days. Heard on 3 of them.

Busiest day so far: Wednesday 4 November, 3 detections between 5:20am and 5:21am.

Time of day

When it calls, last 30 days. Darker is busier.

Busiest around 5am. From 7 days with hourly counts.

Day	Heard	First	Last	Peak confidence
4 Nov	3	5:20am	5:21am	96%
22 Oct	2	6:06am	6:31am	99%
17 Oct	2	5:52am	5:52am	99%
2 Oct	1	12:41am	12:41am	97%
27 Sept	1	4:35am	4:35am	89%
20 Sept	1	3:58am	3:58am	92%
19 Sept	1	6:20pm	6:20pm	87%

Detections are automatic and can be wrong.