Do you know what the title given to a bunch of Kookaburras is ??

Back to school for me....lol... I believe it was a "riot" that i read, but couldn't recall. Thanks guys.
Flock it is, Riot aswell, but not officially.

I've seen 4 together but given they don't 'flock' it would be a rather inappropriate term. Using the same logic perhaps a "shock" of kookas might be apt but I'd like to see a "mirth" adopted.

I have been twitching (birding of the feathered variety) for over 40 years and spend 6 months every year birding around Australia.

The correct term we are looking for is flock.

And on the subject of seeing more than two. took pics earlier this year in Queensland of a total of 7 Kookaburra's together in one tree. Not that rare but one has to be looking. Unfortunately I eat, drink and sleep birding where the family calls me obsessive.

Australia is a great birding country though!

Cheers, Case, Top End, NT (till end of October when I will be returning to the land of the long white cloud for another 6 months)

By "correct" I assume you mean there's an authoritative source. Can you provide one?

Hi

I think what the OP was looking for here was some colloquial term for more than one/a few Kookaburras, not an "authoritative" term in published literature. I think a "flock" of crows (or ravens) is referred to as a "murder" of crows. Not sure there is a term for a group of Kookaburras. As indicated they don't normally congregate (apart form small number of "family" members)..so maybe nobody has invented a colloquial term ??

I wouldn't call a group of Kookaburras a flock ...as it suggests they are flying around the place together. Don't think they do that. Sitting in trees and trying to out laugh each other is different :)

Cheers
Greg

Have 4 sometimes in a tree close by .

When I first read the thread "riot" came to mind straight away for kookaburras so I must have read it somewhere. As for "parliament", I think it should be reserved for galahs.