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The Australian 12-m yacht Kookaburra III lost the America's Cup in 1987. [24] The Australia men's national field hockey team is nicknamed after the kookaburra. They were world champions in field hockey in 1986, 2010 and 2014. [25] Australian sports equipment company Kookaburra Sport is named after the bird.
This is a list of the wild birds found in Australia including its outlying islands and territories, but excluding the Australian Antarctic Territory.The outlying islands covered include: Christmas, Cocos (Keeling), Ashmore, Torres Strait, Coral Sea, Lord Howe, Norfolk, Macquarie and Heard/McDonald.
The Game Act, 1892 (Western Australia), "An Act to provide for the preservation of imported birds and animals, and of native game," provided that proclaimed Australian native birds and animals listed in the First Schedule of the Act could be declared protected from taking. Laughing Jackass was one of 23 Australian native bird species named in ...
Finding Australian Birds, authored by Tim Dolby and Rohan Clarke (2014), features the best places in Australia for finding birds. The Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds , the pre-eminent scientific reference, in seven volumes. The New Atlas of Australian Birds, an extensive detailed survey of Australian bird distributions.
The common Australian kingfisher, known as the laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae), is the heaviest species, with females reaching nearly 500 g (18 oz) in weight. [18] The plumage of most kingfishers is bright, with green and blue being the most common colours.
Blue Winged kookaburra - Berry Springs - Northern Territory - Australia. The blue-winged kookaburra was first collected by Sir Joseph Banks in 1770, but was initially overlooked and confused with the laughing kookaburra, and was finally officially described by Nicholas Aylward Vigors and Thomas Horsfield in 1826, its specific name commemorating British zoologist William Elford Leach. [2]
The yellow wattlebird is Australia's largest honeyeater and an endemic Tasmanian species. A total of 383 species of bird have been recorded living in the wild on the island of Tasmania, nearby islands and islands in Bass Strait. Birds of Macquarie Island are not included in this list. Twelve species are endemic to the island of Tasmania, and most of these are common and widespread. However ...
This is a list of Australian bird emblems. Area represented Image Common name ... Laughing kookaburra: Dacelo novaeguineae [3] Northern Territory: Wedge-tailed eagle: