0
Perhaps the kookaburra is the NSW bird emblem because it is common to that state. The kookaburra occurs naturally throughout the eastern Australian mainland states and areas of the north.
Alternative explanation:
The kookaburra may also have been chosen as the state bird emblem as kookaburra is a loan word from the Wiradjuri guuguubarra. The Wiradjuri people are indigenous to New South Wales.
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
Is a kookaburra a Australian animal?
Yes, a kookaburra is an Australian bird. The Laughing kookaburra and the Blue-winged kookaburra are the two species native to Australia. Other species of Kookaburras are also native to New Guinea and the Aru Islands, in southeastern Indonesia.
What kind of animal is the Australian native Kookaburra?
The kookaburra is a bird, and a member of the kingfisher family.
Species of Australian kingfisher that rarely fishes?
kookaburra
How fast can kookaburra fly?
A Kookaburra can fly up to twenty miles per hour. It is not a very fast bird. The Kookaburra is found in Australian and New Guinea.
Australian bird that laughs like a donkey?
The Laughing Kookaburra
What is burakokoar unscrambled?
Burakokoar is kookaburra, the famous Australian bird.
Is the kookaburra a nocturnal animal?
No. The kookaburra is diurnal, meaning it is active during the day. The kookaburra's call is often heard heralding the early morning in the Australian bush and in suburban backyards.
How do you spell kookabura?
The term applied to Australian kingfisher birds is the "kookaburra".
What Australian batsman uses a kookaburra cricket bat?
ricky ponting
Are kookaburas Australian?
Kookaburras are Australian, but apart from the "laughing kookaburra", there are other species found elsewhere in the islands of Oceania.
Flipper s the voice of what?
A manipulated sound recording of the Australian Kookaburra bird
Are the Australian silver kookaburra coins pure silver?
The Australian Kookaburra series of Proof and Specimen coins first issued by the Perth Mint in 1990, at 99.99% silver, are as close to pure silver as you are ever likely to get in a coin.
