Talk:Laughing Kookaburra
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[edit] Laughing kookaburra not its common name
I was born in Sydney, have often lived with kookaburras nested in the trees around my various homes, and have lived in Australia for 54 years, but have never heard the kookaburra called a 'Laughing kookaburra'. The article should be renamed, unless biologists use this unusual term. I'm quite sure it is commonly called by virtually all Australians (perhaps a few people differ) "a kookaburra", just as a koala is not called by Australians a 'koala bear'. Also, the second word in 'Laughing kookaburra' should have a lower case initial letter, as in 'Red kangaroo', not 'Red Kangaroo'. Maybe someone who knows how can rename the page. Alpheus (talk) 23:45, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
