Laughing kookaburra

Dacelo novaeguineae · Alcedinidae

The laughing kookaburra 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.

Where the Laughing kookaburra lives

Recorded in Ashmore and Cartier Is. (Oceania).

Most records fall in New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania.

See the Laughing kookaburra’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 1,308,266 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.