hi Glen,
I had a very tame female BW kookaburra in my backyard for years. One day I
watched her drop down and grab a medium sized (guess 6cm) Cane toad from the
ground, fly back to her branch, belt it many, many times, and then eat it. I
have photos of her doing this. I watched her subsequently to see what would
happen. She then flew down and grabbed a Glaphyromorphus punctulatus (a skink),
fly back to her branch, belt repeatedly, and eat it. Again, photographed. After
about 20 minutes, she started to look ill, head down, beak slightly open. She
sat like this for about 30 minutes after swallowing the toad.
At minute 50 she started dribbling profusely with her head down. I went and
waited below her. She regurgitated the toad, but not the skink, despite the
fact that she ate the skink after the toad. Quite a talent. After that she
looked fine, and started hunting beetle grubs again where I was working in the
garden. As of me leaving that residence a few years ago, she was fine.
Cheers,
Eric
On 08/10/2012, at 1:33 PM, "Glen Taylor" <> wrote:
> We had a (young) kookaburra in our backyard with a cane toad in its bill
> hitting it against a rock. My wife having some concern for the kookaburra
> (certainly none for the cane toad) got it to drop the toad and it crawled
> away. Any other instances of a kookaburra trying to kill a cane toad? or seen
> eating one?
>
> Glen Taylor (Brisbane)
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