Gorilla, The Lucky Kookaburra

The folks in Brisbane are all aflutter over a lucky kookaburra:

Nicknamed Gorilla, the plucky kookaburra was struck by a car on the New England Highway near the NSW town of Scone a week ago and after being nursed back to health in Brisbane, will be flown home by an RSPCA volunteer in the next couple of days.

...The man whose car hit Gorilla said he noticed two kookaburras darting in front of him just before he collected one at 100km/h.

Miraculously, apart from a cut wing, Gorilla was unhurt.

...RSPCA spokesman Michael Beatty said there was an excellent chance the birds would be reunited.

"It is a bit of a happy ending for a love story," he said. "Kookaburras mate for life and from all indications this guy had a partner so we were always trying to get him back to where he came from."

"Kookaburras are territorial, but even though their territories are quite large (several kilometres), he should be able to find her again."

Motorist Bruce Wham thought he had killed Gorilla but when he went to remove the bird from his grille the following day he saw him stir and called the RSPCA.