Lorikeets, Corellas and a Kookaburra

Two corellas muscle in on a lorikeet family having breakfast. A bemused kookaburra flies in to check out the action until it begins to get a little too close for comfort. Although the kookaburra makes some token attempts to repel the loris, I think he really enjoys their antics. He is the teacher to their Sunday school picnic almost every day! And the loris seem to enjoy teasing him. Note that they give his feathers a tug at 2:30.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• corella
• kookaburra
• lorikeet
• sydney
• australia
• bird

[glyapik]

Lories, don.t go near Kookaburra!!!!

Great to see Kooka is so tame. Where is the vid filmed?

Check out one of mine where I feed and pat a possum

Oh BTW-good music

[Beanick]

@glyapik Thanks for your comments, loved your possum vids! I shot this one at my home in Bayview, northern beaches of Sydney.

[woody678100]

@Beanick may i ask where you live

[Beanick]

@woody678100 Hi Woody! I live in Bayview, which is a suburb on the coast about 40 minutes drive north of the centre of Sydney, Australia.

[darktard]

i want to poke the kookaburra in the belly and say woohoo like the pillsbury dough boy

[Beanick]

@darktard It's tempting because he is a cuddly roly-poly fellow but you have to be careful. Just as he is at his cutest, he can decide to give you a quick nip with that VERY intimidating beak! Although as you can tell from the lori's reactions he's more bluff and bluster than real action.

[birdieroad]

Absolutely amazing! Not your normal back yard birdies here in the states! Thanks for sharing them!

[holmsatlarge]

Nikki and I are watching this video right now!  She loves it and so do I!

[MADDOGMINATTI]

Love your video :)

[flossyde]

that house is amazing :o

[kingofkongisland]

@vyperspit yeah our kookaburras are lovely birds ,we have two types,the laughing(on the video) and the blue winged kookaburra, kookaburras are all around australia as they are not fussy eaters, they are just as happy eating meat pie as they are eating a pisonous snake or spider ,they are like you mentioned just big king fishers.i don't know anything about your kingfishers but i bet they are just as beautiful and interesting as ours.Their laugh is really loud!

[vyperspit]

Wow a real live Kookaburra! I've heard of them, but I never seen one. Of coarse, I don't live in Austraila, but we do have it's kingfisher relatives here in Texas, USA.

[sylar1989]

awsome i feed a family of 4 kookas that come every day, 2 of them are really tame and will jump on my hand when i feed them. trying to get a vid of 1 of t hem sitting on my hand while doing the full kooka call, there is a rival group near by that keeps coming into there territory so i often here them from differant palces around my house threatening each other lol.

[glyapik]

@Beanick hey Im in North Sydney!