{"id":552488,"date":"2026-07-31T05:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T05:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/552488\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T05:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T05:30:17","slug":"hang-on-kookaburra-firmly-in-pythons-grip-in-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/552488\/","title":{"rendered":"Hang on: kookaburra firmly in python’s grip in Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lucky kookaburra has had its life saved after being gripped by a snake hanging off the roof of a house in Queensland.<\/p>\n

In a post to Facebook, Gladstone Region Snake Catchers described being called to the house to find a carpet python had captured a “nice winter feed” at the property in Clinton.<\/p>\n

The snake catchers managed to free the kookaburra from the python’s grip, but “weren’t sure” if the bird was going to survive.<\/p>\n

However, after a “few minutes” of holding the bird, it suddenly erupted in squawking and “took off in a hurry, flying into some bushland”.<\/p>\n

“It was obviously only semi-constricted and was also in shock until all of its senses kicked back in.<\/p>\n

“A very lucky bird as it had only just been captured.”<\/p>\n

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The carpet python gripping the snake while hanging off the roof of a home in Clinton, Queensland. (Source: Gladstone Region Snake Catchers\/Facebook)<\/p>\n

The post said the bird would have made a “decent meal for the snake” and “sustained it for a considerable amount of time”, but added the snake “will find something else to dine on”.<\/p>\n

“The burra lives another day.”<\/p>\n

Users commenting on social media were mixed on the situation and result.<\/p>\n

“Well that’s not a happy outcome for the snake lol! He lost his meal,” one user wrote.<\/p>\n

“Thank you for saving the [kookaburra],” another said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lucky kookaburra has had its life saved after being gripped by a snake hanging off the roof…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[50,85,111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":["post-552488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-australia","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}