The laughing kookaburra is Australia’s national symbol. The kookaburra is a brown-colored bird, about the size of a crow. The male is easily distinguished from the female by the blue hues on his wing feathers and darker blue on his tail feathers. The female has a small bit of blue on her wing feathers, but no blue on her tail feathers.

The call of the kookaburra is commonly used in movies to imitate the sound of monkeys in a jungle.

Kookaburras live at home for the first four years of their life. During this time they take care of and provide food for any younger nestlings.