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Monday 26 April 2010
Today's Visitor
Today we had the visit of a Kookaburra.
Wikipedia says at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kookaburra
:
Kookaburras
(genus
Dacelo
) are large to very large (total length 28–42 cm/11–17 in)
terrestrial
kingfishers
native to
Australia
and
New Guinea
, the name a
loanword
from
Wiradjuri
guuguubarra
, which is
onomatopoeic
of its call.
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