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Old 23-10-2005, 05:01 PM
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Re: Can you identify this bird?

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Originally Posted by Kim Fretwell
We have today visited Hoe Rough, a Norfolk Wildlife Trust Reserve and saw a bird we are having trouble identifying.
A photo is attached, I think, but for anyone who can't view it, the bird had a white chest, white head apart from a black band around the eyes and black wings. The beak was similiar to a woodpeckers but as far as we can tell it is not a woodpecker. It was quiet plump and about the size of a pigeon.
Hope to hear from anyone who has more information than we do!
Regards
Kim
This is a Kookaburra and is obviously an escapee. You had me going there for a moment.

Still I would like you to tell me if it was free flying or if it was a captive bird

Here is a link to a photograph of one.

http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search/im...fp-tab-web-t-1
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