Well would you just look at this cute as a button likely murderer!
I mentioned earlier this week that we had Kookabubbas and it looks like there are two young ones. It's hard to keep track of them as they, along with the entire family group, disappear for a day or two, their laughs echoing in the far distance letting me know they're still around, somewhere.
We've known that babies were in our future a couple of months ago with some serious domestic situations happening. Lots of tackling other kookas out of the sky and so much laughter, the kind where it's instantly clear that the laugh is territorial in nature. So it was only a matter of time really before we started to hear the begging cry of newly fledged Kookabubbas.
There's usually 3 eggs laid but it's a tough world out there and siblicide - murder by a sibling - is high in Kookaburras. There's only a 50% chance that the third chick will survive as the first two babies use the hook on the end of their beak, a hook that only the chicks have, to stab their nest mate to death. Sometimes it's not about the stabbing but the starving, with two of the babies hogging all the food until the third chick starves to death. Yikes.
Don't let that bother you though, I mean, that is one cute baby and we all have our faults, right? 😉
Kookabubba
Northern Illawarra
