He's a very strange looking little creature ..... but we love him all the same! Resembling a Terradactyl or some other prehistoric bird, this Kookaburra chick has been rescued and is only a few days old.
One of our breeding pairs of Kookaburras have not got it right this year - for some reason they've been pushing their tiny chicks out of the nest prematurely - and obviously they've not survived - so we decided to pull the last of the brood from the nest and hand-rear it. So far the little chap is doing well - with a very strong pair of lungs to announce his almost insatiable appetite! There's no chance that the Animal Care Team could forget to feed him - just look at that for a wide, open mouth!
My intention, in due course, is to familiarise myself with some very basic video editing so that some of our Blog entries can be short video clips that include soundtracks - the accompanying acoustics with this one would be deafening!
Food at last! The little 'Kook' is being fed a mixture of raw chicken and beef mince every few hours.
Hi I run an online wildlife rescue magazine and I am doing a Care Article on the Kookaburra - I was hoping you could help me by sending me the orignial of these pics and any information about the kookaburra you can think of please
ReplyDeleteThey need to be original pics because we need the large size as at the end of each year the magazines will come out in print.
Send to andrea@wildliferescuemagazine.com
Thanks for your help
Warmest regards
Andrea Devos
www.wildliferescuemagazine.com