Hi everyone,
I would just like to comment that I think Kookaburras are built to take a
fair bit of bill punishment. I was walking in Noosa NP (in the 80s) and
heard what sounded like someone hitting a tree with the back end of an axe.
I followed the noise and found a Kookaburra trying to knock a hole in an
arboreal termite nest (similar consistency to concrete probably). He was
flying at the nest repeatedly from about 5 metres and getting up quite a
bit of speed before banging into the nest. He continued this for 10 min+
with little success.
Best Wishes
John Boyce
David Parker wrote
>The window is tinted and from the outside acts close enough to a
>true mirror. I don't know what sort of feeling a kookaburra has at the end
>of its beak, but when after a good ten minutes to half an hour you would
>think that pain would be on the agenda.
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