The kookaburra or laughing jackass makes that bird noise you hear in jungle movies What kind of bird is it?

The kookaburras is a type of kingfisher.

Interestingly, it does not live in jungles. Its natural habitat is dry bushland in Australia. The movies which include the kookaburra on their soundtrack are completely misleading the gullible public by using the sound of what is, to non-Australians, an exotic-sounding bird.