The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore is mourning Bloke, a laughing kookaburra bird, that was one of the zoo's most well-known and beloved animal ambassadors.Bloke died peacefully Tuesday of old age, zoo ...

The kookaburra, often called the laughing kookaburra, is a large subgroup of the kingfisher bird. It is diurnal, meaning it is most active in the daytime. Kookaburras are commonly found in eucalyptus ...

BALTIMORE (AP) -- Bloke, the laughing kookaburra who was one of the Maryland Zoo's Animal Ambassadors and who appeared in numerous television shows, has died. Zoo general curator Mike McClure said in ...

While many people took to baking sourdough or tried birdwatching during the COVID-19 lockdown, Farvardin Daliri embarked on a unique passion project: constructing a 15-foot-tall mechanical kookaburra ...

An Australian man stuck at home during the lockdown took on a hobby that no one else had probably considered: He built a massive kookaburra in his front yard — complete with a laughing soundtrack — ...

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SYDNEY: Populations of some of Australia's iconic birds -- including the laughing kookaburra, magpie and willie wagtail -- are in decline in parts of the country, according to a report released ...

An artist has kept himself busy during coronavirus lockdown by creating a gigantic kookaburra sculpture which performs the native bird's famous laugh. Farvardin Daliri built the four-and-a-half-metre ...

It's a common sound in the Australian bush, starting up just around daylight: the laughing call of the kookaburra. In the group captured in this field recording by wildlife expert David Stewart, four ...