> > We also have a New Zealand version of "The 12 days of Christmas," substituting NZ items and
> > animals, from a kids' book written a while back. Nobody sings it. It's called "A Pukeko in a Ponga
> > Tree".
> >
> > Brunnen-"pukekos are flightless, so you'd have to actually put it in the tree yourself, and then it
> > wouldn't be able to get back down"G
>
> There's also an Australian kids' book with an Australian version, where it's an emu up a gum tree. (Which, apart from anything else, at least scans.)
>

There's also the song about a kookaburra in a gum tree...

Kookaburra sits in an old gum tree
Eating all the gumdrops he can see
Stop, kookaburra, stop, kookaburra
Please save some for me

I have no idea whether kookaburras can fly or not. :)