Australian birds

This is going to be hopeless since I don't know the names or even the appearance of the birds who jolt us up in the morning and yell at us in the evening. They jump about in the trees and since the trees are in continuous leaf, all I can tell you is that there are blurred shapes that jump from branch to branch .About 6:30 AM the chorus begins:

There is the Michael Jackson bird, so named by Susie's sister, Pam, because its song sounds like " Ease on down, Ease on down, Ease on down," from The Wiz. It's quite melodic and could be easily worked into a pleasant waking dream
But then there is a bird--I presume it is a bird--who makes a sound like some being rudely opeated on without anaesthetic, a blend a tortured screech and a giant velcro patch being ripped open.  That one will bounce you from the soundest sleep into a panic of apprehension and have you looking for the phone to call 911.

I do recognize one bird, the kookaburra, from children's books and from my deck of Australian animal playing cards.  They are a large edition of the Kingfisher of american streams and rivers.  The head is overlarge in proportion to its body and it looks as if it should tip out of  trees and stick in the ground like a dropped dart, tail up.  but it is not the looks that are the most striking but the call, which is a manaical laugh, which can also can sound like a one bird jungle, or a crazed chimpanzee: oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ah-ah-ah-oo-oo-oo-oooo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah.
There is the bird that sounds like the crying baby Waaah , Waaah.. which may be the Indian Minor bird (pronounced MY-nah), or, again , may not.  There are birds reknowned for their flexible vocal talents , that cuckoo,  magpie, the crow, but I can't be sure who is responsible for what unlikely noise coming from the trees down the street or over the fence.
Now that I am emphatically up, I can look around for a bird book to solve these mysteries.  It won't be easy.

Lets not even begin to think about the sounds made by the large gliding bat, the flying fox.