Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree - and now it sits on your printer tray! Our printable kookaburra mask celebrates one of Australia's most iconic and entertaining birds. Famous for its extraordinary laughing call that echoes through the bush at dawn and dusk, the kookaburra is a truly special animal. Perfect for Australian animals school plays, world birds projects, World Book Day, birthday parties, and very noisy imaginative play.

The kookaburra song is one of the first Australian animal facts most children learn, which makes this mask immediately recognisable - and it works brilliantly alongside the emu, cockatoo and platypus for a full Down Under collection. Every mask comes with a full colour version AND a black and white line art version for colouring in.

5 Interesting Facts About Kookaburras!

The kookaburra's famous laughing call is actually a territorial declaration - family groups laugh together at dawn and dusk to announce their territory to neighbouring groups, and the sound can carry for kilometres.
Despite being a kingfisher, the laughing kookaburra mostly eats land prey - snakes, lizards, insects and small mammals rather than fish. It will tackle snakes up to a metre long, bashing them against a branch to kill them.
Kookaburras are the largest kingfishers in the world - the laughing kookaburra can be up to 45cm long, dwarfing the tiny European kingfisher we know in the UK.
They're fiercely family-oriented - young kookaburras from the previous year stay with their parents to help raise the next clutch of chicks, making them one of Australia's most cooperative breeders.
The kookaburra laugh has been used as a generic 'jungle sound' in films for decades - if you hear tropical birds in the background of any jungle scene in Hollywood, it's almost certainly a kookaburra despite them living in Australia, nowhere near a tropical jungle.

Printable Kookaburra Mask

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