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Post by silvercloud on Feb 4, 2006 10:20:08 GMT
These are two kookaburras my fella and I have been caring for. They can't be released back into the wild as they both have wings that were too badly damaged to fly properly. The one on the left is Fluff and the other is Fifi.
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Post by Admin on Feb 4, 2006 10:30:27 GMT
ive always heard about kookaburras but ive never seen one - they a re gorgeous!! are they friendly?
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Post by carmz on Feb 4, 2006 10:39:14 GMT
they are beautiful !!! i loooooooove kookaburras !!!
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Post by silvercloud on Feb 4, 2006 11:34:50 GMT
They aren't the friendliest of birds most of the time but as with anything you always get some that are a bit different. These two are ok if we have food, especially Fluff, in fact we often call him Fat Fluff as he eats SO much and steals Fifi's food. LOL
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Post by Admin on Feb 4, 2006 11:39:57 GMT
lol that would be worth seeing!!
sorry about the silly questions but us pomms dont know much about your wildlife hehehe
they are still beautiful though - id love to take one home #heart#
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Post by silvercloud on Feb 4, 2006 11:56:16 GMT
They look so cuddly but when we first got Fluff he latched onto my finger. I fairly yelled and cursed as these guys can break bones. We feed them on day old chicks and mice.(dead of course) and bits of snake. In the wild they eat baby birds, lizards, frogs, snakes, pretty much anything small that moves (that includes little fingers)LOL
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Post by Berserka on Feb 4, 2006 11:57:21 GMT
They are both gorgeous! Is Fifi a youngun?
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Post by Admin on Feb 4, 2006 11:58:16 GMT
OUCH!!!! They look so innocent that by appearances they wouldnt hurt a fly #cheesy#
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Post by silvercloud on Feb 4, 2006 12:11:23 GMT
Yeah she's prolly a six months, maybe less, younger. We've had her for about four months and Fluff for ten months. They share an aviary, well an old chook run, with two magpies.
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Post by Berserka on Feb 4, 2006 12:43:48 GMT
My father had an incident with a baby kookaburra once, he picked up a baby that he thought had fallen out of it's nest. The baby started screaming & dozens of kookaburra's came out of the trees at him. He said he quickly put the baby down & ran for his life!
LMAO!! I would have loved to have seen that!!
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Post by silvercloud on Feb 4, 2006 12:58:52 GMT
LOL that would have been so funny. I remember camping one weekend and we had just sat down to eat a bbq. My brother had a big steak in his hands and had his mouth open to take a bite and out of nowhere this kooka comes flying down and steals the steak right out of his hands and mouth. We all nearly wet ourselves laughing. It landed about 6 feet away and started smashing the steak on the ground to 'kill' it. The only thing that saved the rest of the meat was that every kooka for a mile around started 'laughing'. Talk about rubbing salt into the wound. ROFPML LMAO. I still laugh out loud every time I think about it
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Post by Berserka on Feb 4, 2006 14:01:37 GMT
ROTFL!!! Gee those birds are so entertaining!
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Post by Terri on Feb 5, 2006 8:33:29 GMT
They're sinfully cute!
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Post by Angela on Feb 6, 2006 19:23:29 GMT
They are cute looking little birdies. Can I ask.......where do you get the snakes from to feed to them? Urgh!
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Post by silvercloud on Feb 7, 2006 3:49:59 GMT
The wildlife carer we help. We also get them around the farm so iF we kill one we freeze it and then cut it up, or should I say 'I' cut it up. My fella won't do it. The sacrifices I have to make... LOL
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