What does a kookaburra eat? We’re so glad you asked. It’s not so much what they eat, but how they eat that’s so interesting! Kookaburra are members of the kingfisher family, and hunt a variety of small rodents, lizards and insects as prey. With a whack and a crunch, these birds kill and tenderize their prey before swallowing it whole. Alice was kind enough to demonstrate with her evening mouse. We use previously frozen, thawed mice to feed our meat-eating birds, but Alice goes through all the mo