male and female kookaburra

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male and female kookaburra

To:	'calyptorhynchus' <>, 'Canberra Birds' <>
Subject:	male and female kookaburra
From:	Suzanne EDGAR <>
Date:	Tue, 23 Apr 2019 02:11:49 +0000

Ha, ha! V useful! & a little comical with the angle

Congrats

From: calyptorhynchus [
Sent: Monday, 22 April 2019 6:51 AM
To: Canberra Birds <>
Subject: [canberrabirds] male and female kookaburra

Someone was asking about the difference between male and female kookaburras. Here's a photo I took a few years ago showing the female's brown rump and the male's blue rump. However, this difference is less marked in the non-breeding season (the male's blue rump fades).

cheers

John Leonard

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