Kookaburra

The laughing kookaburra is a bird in the kingfisher subfamily Halcyoninae.

It is a large robust kingfisher with a whitish head and a dark eye-stripe.

 The plumage of the male and female birds is similar. A predator of a

wide variety of small animals, the laughing kookaburra typically

waits perched on a branch until it sees an animal on the ground,

 pounces on its prey. Eat lizards, insects, worms and snakes.