Basic Trope: A kookaburra call always plays in an exotic setting even when its not in Australia.
- Straight: As Alice and Bob trek through the jungles of west Africa, a kookaburra call is heard in the background SFX.
- Exaggerated: Kookaburra calls play on an alien planet.
- Downplayed: Kookaburras are heard when Alice and Bob are in the Maluku Islands, just outside the range of most species.
- Justified:
- Someone brought a kookaburra to Africa.
- The story is set in Oceania, where kookaburras are native.
- It's set in Indonesia, which is close enough to kookaburra's native range and could feasibly be a vagrant making the call.
- Inverted: Alie and Bob are trekking through the Daintree Rainforest of Queensland, Australia, but never once is a Kookaburra so much as heard.
- Subverted:
- The camera pans up to reveal an animal making the noise that is clearly not a kookaburra.
- Alice and Bob are actually their zoo's aviary, which mixes australian and african fauna together.
- Double Subverted: Only to pan left to reveal its mimicking a nearby one.
- Lampshaded: "Uh, Bob, you sure we're in Africa?"
- Played for Laughs: A Kookaburra is heard in Alice's backyard in suburban NJ.
- Played for Drama: The plot is about tryingh to stop invasive species from spreading before an dcological disaster occurs, and Kookaburras are among them.
