Word: kooka
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Demands for his protection brought forth numerous writers who pointed out that while kookaburra had been observed to seize a snake in his beak, fly with it to a great height and drop it,* there was no certainty the snake was a live one or that this was kooka's method of snakassination or that kooka was doing anything but playing...
...that-"The kookaburra . . . swallows snakes and laughs" would not therefore receive general acceptance in the land where the dawn is signalled Galli-Curci-like with an explosion of ringing notes, amid a quick fire of echoes, the world awakes with a bang; and though abrupt and startling the onset kooka rushes exultingly into a rifle shot pealing crescendo, terminating in high pitched demoniacal mockerj'. S. E. BUTLER...
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