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The kookaburra story
I run an owl box project in Johannesberg and Pretoria, last year I received a
call from a woman in Rosebank wishing to buy an owl box. This was her story:
her husband had put up an aviary in the garden some 6 years earlier and bought
a pair of laughing kookaburras, they had never bred and in December 2004 had
escaped through an opening in the aviary. The concerned couple placed
advertisements all over Rosebank but no sign of the missing pair. In May 2005
they received a call from an owl box owner 2 streets away informing them that
the missing birds were living in the owl box. When they climbed up to the box
they discovered that the female kookaburra was sitting on 2 eggs. Their phone
call to me was in order to buy an owl box, then they would place it in the
aviary and attempt to catch and return the pair to the pen. It appears from the
various sightings that this did not happen.
This pair have been free for almost 2 years and possibly raised a couple of
clutches, although none of the sightings have been of a Juv. hopefully this
won't become the "Indian Myna" of tomorrow.
Jonathan Haw
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