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Blue-Winged Kookaburra (36)
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Has a large, cream-white head that is streaked brown. It has a brown back and its
wings are mostly blue. The rump and tail are also blue on the male, but the female
has a reddish-brown barred tail.
Differences from Laughing Kookaburra are: blue rump, cream-white head and light
eye colour.
In Australia the Blue-winged Kookaburra is distributed widely in tropical and subtropical eucalypt woodlands.
It feeds mainly on insects and reptiles, or frogs when they are abundant.
Lives in eucalypt forests and paperbark swamps.
Live on a wide variety of prey including snakes, lizards, large insects, small
mammals and the odd small bird. |
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