·    Differences from Laughing Kookaburra are: blue rump, cream-white head and light
      eye colour.

·         In Australia the Blue-winged Kookaburra is distributed widely in tropical and subtropical eucalypt woodlands.

·         It feeds mainly on insects and reptiles, or frogs when they are abundant.

·         Lives in eucalypt forests and paperbark swamps.

·     Live on a wide variety of prey including snakes, lizards, large insects, small
 mammals and the odd small bird.

Additional Information:

Blue-winged Kookaburra:- Dacelo leachii

This species differs from the better known 'Laughing Kookaburra' in having a relatively bigger, more streaked head, and much more prettier blue areas on the wing. The call is not as much a rolling laugh, but a loud, screaming cackle. It essentially lives in the woodlands across the tropical top of Australia, extending down the east coast into north-eastern N.S.W.
Script courtesy of Naturalist Guide Damon Ramsey

Additional Blue-winged Kookaburra photo

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