Birds, Wilson's Prom...

Wilson's Promontory (aka the Prom, leading to jokes about "going to the Prom"...):

This place is bird city. As soon as we arrived we were greeted by a flock of brilliant red parrots - actually, crimson rosellas - who hop all around, squeaking and squawking, checking us out, finally hopping up on my hand to see what we've got. (Shona, you would love it here!) After a few hours, they start to seem like pigeons, more annoying than exotic. Just another freaking prismatic parrot, nothing to see here...

The kookaburra's call sounds like a monkey, a classic "jungle" sound - OOH OOH OOH OOH! AAH AAH AH AH! (Hear it at: http://www.anbg.gov.au/sounds/kookaburra.au .) You've heard it in countless cheesy TV shows and movies. At dusk the second day on the Prom we heard and then saw 2 of them duking it out, one yelling OOH OOH OOH! While the other yelled AAH AAH AH! And they meshed their claws together and fell from the trees while a couple of magpies circled around, playing bystander.