Laughing kookaburra: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the laughing kookaburra lives – recorded in 1 country, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Dacelo novaeguineae
Group	Woodpeckers, kingfishers, hornbills & toucans
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	1 country
Continents	Oceania
Mass	30.4 g (birth weight); 307 g (male organism, adult weight); 352 g (female organism, adult weight)
Diet (main food)	Small Fish, snake, common yabby, Mus, invertebrate, Anura, micromammal
Class	Bird
Order	Coraciiformes
Family	Alcedinidae

Where does the laughing kookaburra live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the laughing kookaburra in 1 country or territory across Oceania. Wikidata lists it as endemic to Australia.

Australia

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is a laughing kookaburra?

Wikidata records the following for the laughing kookaburra: mass 30.4 g (birth weight); 307 g (male organism, adult weight); 352 g (female organism, adult weight).

What does a laughing kookaburra eat?

Wikidata lists the main food source of the laughing kookaburra as: Small Fish, snake, common yabby, Mus, invertebrate, Anura, micromammal.

Is the laughing kookaburra endangered?

The laughing kookaburra’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the laughing kookaburra?

The laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae) is a bird in the order Coraciiformes and the family Alcedinidae, genus Dacelo. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the laughing kookaburra

The laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae) is a bird in the kingfisher subfamily Halcyoninae. It is a large kingfisher with a whitish head and a brown eye-stripe. The upperparts are mostly dark brown but there is a mottled light-blue patch on the wing coverts. The underparts are cream-white and the tail is barred with rufous and black. The plumage of the male and female birds is similar. The territorial call is a distinctive laugh that is often delivered by several birds at the same time, and is widely used as a stock sound effect in situations that involve a jungle setting.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Laughing kookaburra (revision 1380597995), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q824974 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).