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BLUE WINGED KOOKABURRADacelo leachiiTony Margiocchi (Snapperz) The Blue-winged Kookaburra, Dacelo leachii, is a large species of kingfisher native to northern Australia and southern New Guinea. Measuring around 40 cm (16 in), it is slightly smaller than the more familiar Laughing Kookaburra. It has cream-coloured upper- and underparts barred with brownish markings. It has blue wings and brown shoulders and blue rump. It is sexually dimorphic, with a blue tail in the male, and a rufous tail with blackish bars in the female. Their call has been described as a maniacal cackling or barking. The Blue-winged Kookaburra hunts and eats a great variety of animals that live on or close to the ground. In the summer wet season, insects, lizards and frogs make up a higher proportion of their diet, while they eat arthropods such as crayfish, scorpions, spiders, fish, earthworms, small birds and rodents at other times. They have even been recorded waiting for and snatching insects flushed out by bushfires. Fact Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-winged_Kookaburra Other Australian favorites you might like: Albino Kookaburra Spotted Tiger Quoll Australian Numbat

BLUE WINGED KOOKABURRA
Dacelo leachii
Tony Margiocchi (Snapperz)

The Blue-winged Kookaburra, Dacelo leachii, is a large species of kingfisher native to northern Australia and southern New Guinea.

Measuring around 40 cm (16 in), it is slightly smaller than the more familiar Laughing Kookaburra. It has cream-coloured upper- and underparts barred with brownish markings. It has blue wings and brown shoulders and blue rump. It is sexually dimorphic, with a blue tail in the male, and a rufous tail with blackish bars in the female.

Their call has been described as a maniacal cackling or barking.

The Blue-winged Kookaburra hunts and eats a great variety of animals that live on or close to the ground. In the summer wet season, insects, lizards and frogs make up a higher proportion of their diet, while they eat arthropods such as crayfish, scorpions, spiders, fish, earthworms, small birds and rodents at other times. They have even been recorded waiting for and snatching insects flushed out by bushfires.

Fact Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-winged_Kookaburra

Other Australian favorites you might like:

Albino Kookaburra

Spotted Tiger Quoll

Australian Numbat

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