Kookaburra Sheltering a Creekside Village

A huge kookaburra perches on a mossy creek bank, its feathers layered in teal, blue, peach, plum and cream, with an orange beak and a pink cheek. Yellow trumpet mushrooms grow on its head. Small round doors open in its chest and tail, with ladders leading up to them. A thatched hut with a family stands on its breast, and a bridge of planks runs along a tail feather, where figures climb. A picnic table juts out beside the wing with diners at it, and a basket hangs from the beak. Two people stand in a pond at its feet. Hollow trees with ladders and nests, lily pads, rafts, cattails and purple flowers fill the creek around it. The bird's scale-like rows of feathers break the picture into neat, repeating sections.