Today I heard a bird in our forest next door that sounded a bit like a kookaburra, but without the full chorus. Couldn't see it but wondered if anyone has any ideas ? .. and I wasn't in another headspace, on the gunja, or feeling homesick.

Could it possibly have been an Abo making the Kookaburra call?

Were you naked......someone over the fence larfin ?

it was probably a Gowwow. bird. as the Thais call it.

There use to be a Bird now extincted in Thailand, It was called a winkywankybird, its fore skin was attached to its eye lids. people us to flick things at it, it eventually wanked itself to death.

Tim...No it wasnt....The closest thing to an Aussie bird here is the Crow....sounds the same but a bit different in colours.

Ask any Kookaburra, and the answer will be "Too bloody hot mate".....

Tim...No it wasnt....The closest thing to an Aussie bird here is the Crow....sounds the same but a bit different in colours.

Ask any Kookaburra, and the answer will be "Too bloody hot mate".....

Years ago I was looking at a car in Thailand and asked if it came with a sunroof option and the salesman looking at my skin colour laughed and said, 'Too hot in Thailand for a sunroof'. Strange I thought because the weather in Oz can be a lot hotter than Thailand, depending on what corner of the great land ur standing on.

Kookaburras are Devine creatures.......I'd hate to see one in LOS, It would probably end up in a cage

Tim...No it wasnt....The closest thing to an Aussie bird here is the Crow....sounds the same but a bit different in colours.

Ask any Kookaburra, and the answer will be "Too bloody hot mate".....

Years ago I was looking at a car in Thailand and asked if it came with a sunroof option and the salesman looking at my skin colour laughed and said, 'Too hot in Thailand for a sunroof'. Strange I thought because the weather in Oz can be a lot hotter than Thailand, depending on what corner of the great land ur standing on.

Kookaburras are Devine creatures.......I'd hate to see one in LOS, It would probably end up in a cage

More likely on a dinner plate rather than in a cage

As a kid in deepest Africa Kookaburras were match cricket balls.

Thanks guys, I'll keep on observing. I wondered if it was a kingfisher as they are the kookas closest relative here.

It's almost certainly a Coucal.

Google it and you will find sound recordings you can compare with what you are hearing.

Patrick

It's almost certainly a Coucal.

Google it and you will find sound recordings you can compare with what you are hearing.

Patrick

Thanks Patrick, I think you were spot on and we do have quite a lot of them around the house and garden. Curious birds, at first they seem a bit scared but then don't take much notice of us. Someone told me they are sought after by collectors and a pair can get 20,000 baht. But I'd rather see them in their own habitat and not caged.

Tim...No it wasnt....The closest thing to an Aussie bird here is the Crow....sounds the same but a bit different in colours.

Ask any Kookaburra, and the answer will be "Too bloody hot mate".....

Years ago I was looking at a car in Thailand and asked if it came with a sunroof option and the salesman looking at my skin colour laughed and said, 'Too hot in Thailand for a sunroof'. Strange I thought because the weather in Oz can be a lot hotter than Thailand, depending on what corner of the great land ur standing on.

Kookaburras are Devine creatures.......I'd hate to see one in LOS, It would probably end up in a cage

They sell Sugar Gliders at Chatuchak market, so I wouldn't be surprised to see a Kookaburra turn up.

Tim...No it wasnt....The closest thing to an Aussie bird here is the Crow....sounds the same but a bit different in colours.

Ask any Kookaburra, and the answer will be "Too bloody hot mate".....

Years ago I was looking at a car in Thailand and asked if it came with a sunroof option and the salesman looking at my skin colour laughed and said, 'Too hot in Thailand for a sunroof'. Strange I thought because the weather in Oz can be a lot hotter than Thailand, depending on what corner of the great land ur standing on.

Kookaburras are Devine creatures.......I'd hate to see one in LOS, It would probably end up in a cage

They sell Sugar Gliders at Chatuchak market, so I wouldn't be surprised to see a Kookaburra turn up.

I'd be shattered. I get real riled up easily, like u would of noticed over the years 555555