kookaburranoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkʊk.əˌbʌr.ə/us/ˈkʊk.əˌbʌr.ə/a large Australian bird that lives in trees and makes a strange sound like a person laughing
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Other wild birds
- bird of paradise
- blackbird
- blue tit
- bluebird
- bluejay
- honeyeater
- house martin
- house sparrow
- hummingbird
- Indian mynah
- mockingbird
- mynah
- nightingale
- oriole
- ostrich
- starling
- swift
- toucan
- turtle dove
- warbler
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Examples from literature
- Another famous Australian bird is the kookaburra.
- Kookaburras eat snakes and other birds.
- Sometimes when people are cooking outside their homes, kookaburras fly down and take the food.
- There are different kinds of kookaburra with different colors.