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Sheba


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This was in the local paper last Thursday.

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Wow that's very interesting indeed Sheba, many, many years ago we had a white crow hanging around our farm. Nature can be a wonderful thing.



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copper1 wrote:

 Nature can be a wonderful thing.

 Excuse me for being cynical, but I wonder if s/he would have trouble finding a mate.

 



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dorian wrote:
copper1 wrote:

 Nature can be a wonderful thing.

 Excuse me for being cynical, but I wonder if s/he would have trouble finding a mate.

 

 Nah, Dorian, women know most things are better black. biggrin

 



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Shut the front gate Sheba,

that blue wing stands out much better though, really nice.

Rosie, maybe Wombat would look better in black budgie smugglers cos Mrs W reckons he doesn't look good in the white ones.

Sorry Sheba, Dazren made me do it. (Slightly off topic)

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Dougwe wrote:

Shut the front gate Sheba,

that blue wing stands out much better though, really nice.

Rosie, maybe Wombat would look better in black budgie smugglers cos Mrs W reckons he doesn't look good in the white ones.

Sorry Sheba, Dazren made me do it. (Slightly off topic)

 the off topic king strikes again nono

I do not wear white or black I prefer to go naked. biggrin



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Gerty Dancer wrote:

So do they think this is a very rare separate species or some kind of freak/sport of the regular kookaburra? It looks fairly healthy, maybe its the angle but the beak looks over-large?.

If you Google "Black Kookaburras" on the Image page, and click on the third Pic., you'll find an article about a whole family of them in Sydney, at Liverpool.
Not a rare species Gerty.  I can't remember the correct terminology [ maybe something to do with Melanin ?] off-hand at the moment, but it is explained in the article.
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-- Edited by Sheba on Sunday 17th of November 2013 08:37:00 PM

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So do they think this is a very rare separate species or some kind of freak/sport of the regular kookaburra? It looks fairly healthy, maybe its the angle but the beak looks over-large?.

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_wombat_ wrote:
Dougwe wrote:

Shut the front gate Sheba,

that blue wing stands out much better though, really nice.

Rosie, maybe Wombat would look better in black budgie smugglers cos Mrs W reckons he doesn't look good in the white ones.

Sorry Sheba, Dazren made me do it. (Slightly off topic)

 the off topic king strikes again nono

I do not wear white or black I prefer to go naked. biggrin

 You would be game going naked where those black kookas  are.

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Is it true that black kookies prefer snakes to worms???? confuse 



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Ontos45 wrote:

Is it true that black kookies prefer snakes to worms???? confuse 

 WORMS _ WORMS _ WORMS _ WORMS

I know they prefer worms biggrinbiggrin



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He / She looks all beak and no body, maybe a young one.

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It looks like a juvenile Blue Winged Kookaburra or similar species with darker feathers, rather than a "common" Kooka. I'm no nature expert but I do like to sit and watch, and some of these species very from region to region. Cute anyway.

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