Kookaburra

A kookaburra is a bird which is native to Australia. The word comes from the Wiradhuri word "gugubarra". Wiradhuri is "a Aboriginal language of SE Australia" (American Heritage Dictionary). I like this word not only because it's fun to say but because the bird is quite silly as well. It's a bird which is about the size of two fists and always looks like it's smiling. And, as the AHD puts it so well, it has " a call that resembles raucous laughter". Such a funny bird. Oh yeah, and it's fuzzy.