Kookaburra sits on the old car grille...

[Geez Louise]

What a lucky bird!! Hit by Mr Wham!

Originally Posted by Ninemsn

Despite being stuck in the grille of a car for a 700km drive, one lucky kookaburra has had the last laugh.

Bruce Wham, from Wollongong, was heading north from Scone in NSW when his car hit a kookaburra.

"There was a bang and I thought, 'uh oh, there's one dead kookaburra'," he told the Courier-Mail.

He noticed the bird stuck in the grille of his Mazda 6 when passers-by pointed it out at a petrol station in Tenterfield.

Assuming the bird was dead, Mr Wham decided to drive on and deal with the carcass later.

At one stage he thought he saw the bird move, but people convinced him otherwise. It wasn't until he arrived in Brisbane 25 hours later that he decided to remove the bird, only to find it was alive and extremely irritable.

"I must have hit it up the bum because his head and a little bit of one wing were sticking out," Mr Wham said.

The kookaburra had to be cut of the car grille by the RSPCA and has spent the last week recovering from the traumatic journey.

700km Journey! Wow

FULL STORY HERE