An Australian kookaburra, a large brown and white bird known for its loud, laughing call.
From Aboriginal Australian language (likely Kulin languages), borrowed into English to describe the kookaburra bird native to Australia. The term reflects Indigenous Australian naming.
The kookaburra's laugh is so distinctive that early European settlers in Australia called it the 'laughing jackass'—'goburra' comes from the Kulin peoples who knew this bird thousands of years before anyone else did!
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