Kookaburra. Live symbol of Australia.
Australia is a unique place. They call Australia as “green continent”, but the biggest part of it is a desert which can have any color but green. Australian landscape has been made up by powerful water streams flowing through it for many thousands years, but now it is the droughts country in the world. Many of Australian native animals managed not only not to extinct as civilization came, but multiplied their population so last year Australian government were going to shoot several thousand of kangaroos grazing around Canberra as they were creating certain problems to some military base or something like that. Of course, not all native animals were that lucky but many of them still do not seem like presence of civilization cause any inconvenience to them.
I have already got sick of silly questions about bears stealing vodka from school students on the streets of Moscow. Indeed, it is a big luck (well, it could be rather bad luck) to meet a bear in wild in Russia. But if you want to see one of the Australian symbols in wild, there is no need to go to the Zoo. It is better to visit one of many parks, preferable one with BBQs in it.
I took this picture of the monster with fossil camera Canon A510 from the distance of one meter. It was sitting just above the BBQ on the branch
