and making it more tender before eating it. If the prey is small enough, the kookaburra will skip the beating and swallow it whole. The main threat kookaburras face in the wild is habitat loss.

The kookaburra, part of a family of ... to suburban neighbourhoods. They can also eat a wide range of foods - from frogs and lizards, to mice, to beetles and worms - which has no doubt helped ...