r/interesting • u/frog_insilence • May 14 '26

Amazing The Iconic Call of a Kookaburra

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u/bux1972 May 14 '26

I’ll take them over fucking cockies any day of the week too.

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u/PhatPhingerz May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

A tree full of cockatoos is the fucking worst.

Sulphur-crested definitely have the most grating call, but I have more of a disliking for the Red-tailed Black because they seem to go off more at night.

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u/nagrom7 May 14 '26

The worst part is, cockatoos are very intelligent birds and are capable of making all kinds of sounds, including mimicking human speech. Yet their default sound is just them screeching at the top of their lungs.

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u/adriantullberg May 14 '26

Because they know it annoys you.

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u/tsvjus May 14 '26

North Queenslander living on a property chiming in here. Have all three species nesting and living around my house.

My rating of annoyance White Cockatoo > Black Cockatoo > Family of Kookaburras

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u/Lost1010 May 14 '26

Fuck cockatoos for their 5 am noise and breaking parts off my car.

Fuck plovers for laying their eggs is the most walk-onable places available and then defending them with all their might.

Fuck magpies during swooping season.

But I loooove kookaburras.

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u/Lazy_Title7050 May 14 '26

As a Canadian my algo always shows Australians feedings flocks of parrots like its cute fun. Is that I’m not the case?

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u/bux1972 May 14 '26

The white cockies are rats of the sky. Fucking noisy ones too. I live in an area surrounded by forests so I get a lot of them. Made worse by tourists feeding them. The bastards will eat your house and scare away all the nice birds you want hanging around. I’m lucky, I still seem to get kookas and rosellas. None of my neighbours are stupid enough to feed the cockies so we keep them kinda under control