yellow-tailed black cockatoo
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[edit]Noun
[edit]yellow-tailed black cockatoo (plural yellow-tailed black cockatoos)
- A large cockatoo, Zanda funerea syn. Calyptorhynchus funereus, native to southeastern Australia.
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 304:
- Charles, to his everlasting pride and eternal shame, sold his yellow-tailed black cockatoo to the man in the pet shop outside whose establishment fortune decreed we should come to rest.
- 2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 9:
- [T]he shrieks of yellow-tailed black cockatoos are said to be the lament of dead Aboriginal children.
Translations
[edit]Zanda funerea
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