Kookaburras are said to be carnivorous because they eat different animals for their survival. Kookaburras can eat snakes, lizards, amphibians, and rodents for nutrients. They rarely eat fish. Kookaburras are terrestrial tree kingfishers. They are found throughout eastern Australia and are introduced to Tasmania, southwest of Western Australia and New Zealand.
They are normally present in open forests and eucalyptus woodlands. The average lifespan of kookaburras is 15 years. The largest kookaburra can be up to 18 inches in length.
Insects and animals
Kookaburras can eat snakes, rodents such as mice, fish, bees, ants, meat, blue tongue lizards, etc. Kookaburras love to eat brown snakes. Additionally, Kookaburras eat birds that are young and small, cane toads, chicken, and their eggs, cicadas, baby chickens, and ducklings.
Kookaburras can eat other birds and their eggs which are smaller in size than them, frogs, crayfish, pondfish, goldfish, and grasshoppers, larvae of insects, lizards, and mealworms. They love to eat funnel-web spiders. Kookaburras like to eat mincemeat, poisonous snakes, pork and rats, cooked and raw chicken. Kookaburras do eat spiders, snails, slugs, tadpoles, toads, worms, tiger snakes, and blue wrens.
Fruits and plants
Although kookaburra’s diet consists of animals and insects, sometimes they also eat fruit and vegetables for nutritional requirements. Kookaburras will eat fruits like apples, bananas, mangoes, peaches, etc. Also, Kookaburras are able to eat birdseed, grass, grubs, magpies, and some vegetables like potatoes and sweet potatoes, tomatoes, etc.
What kookaburras don’t eat
Kookaburras don’t eat carrions, rabbits because they are large in size, guinea pigs, koalas, platypus, and mosquitoes. Kookaburras don’t like to eat gumdrops and plants because these are not part of their diet. Kookaburras don’t eat possums, raw or cooked pasta, salami, cockatoos, and more.
