‘Birds’

Kingfisher, Giant, or laughing kukabara

  

Kingfisher, Giant, or laughing kukabara ( Dacelo novaeguineae / Dacelo gigas) - Type kukabar, living in forest areas Eastern Australia,on south-western Australia and on the island Tasmania.

There are two subspecies of the giant kingfisher, or laughing kukabary:

* Dacelo novaeguineae novaeguineae - собственно смеющаяся кукабара (Eastern Australia);
* Dacelo novaeguineae minor - малая смеющаяся кукабара (Cape York).

  

  

Zimorodok-giant – is a medium-sized bird of prey and solid build, its body length - 45-47 cm, span 65 cm, mass of birds around 500 G.

His head was a giant kingfisher large, with a long beak, colors in birds dominate off-white, gray and brown tones in contrast to other types of kukabar.

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Little Penguin

Little Penguin ( Eudyptula minor) - The kind of the kind of small penguins family pingvinovyh, living on the coast of South Australia and nearby islands.

Little Penguin – the smallest species of all living penguin today, It
growth of about 40 cm, and weighs about 1 kg.

In small penguins back of a dark blue or dark almost black color, breast and upper legs, the penguin,light gray, almost white, and dark gray beak.

Little Penguin eats small fish and cephalopods, and sometimes octopus.

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Gray-headed Grebe

Gray-headed Grebe (Poliocephalus poliocephalus) - One of the two types of bald grebes, family of birds pogankovyh, which can be found in all states of Australia and the island Tasmania.

Gray-headed Grebe inhabits salt and fresh water and feed on small aquatic arthropods, where she catches a deep diving into the water, well in low light searches for food on the water surface.

Gray-headed Grebe - a small and stocky bird, its length is 29-31 cm, and weighs about 250 gr. Plumage gray-headed grebes dark gray or white with a narrow black stripe on the back of the neck.
Males and females are gray-headed Grebe looks with each other do not differ, except for the beak dark with a light tip, which is slightly longer in males than in females.

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