Definitions
Etymologies
- From Wiradhuri. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A subspecies of western corella, Cacatua pastinator pastinator is also found in this ecoregion, with fewer than 2,500 mature birds present.”
“With darkness silence and stillness return, but then some idiot corella falls off the rotten twig on which it has perched and the whole white flock wheels screeching into the air again.”
“A cold southerly wind rustled through the coolabah trees with a sweet hissing sound as a corella squawked into a colourless sky.”
“Maybe they could be a new tourism idea - the corella cull," she said.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘corella’.
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birds
birds with singular names from
at least 9 English dictionariesaasvogel, aberdevine, accentor, accipiter, aepyornis, agami, albatross, alcatras, alcid, alcidine, amadavat, amokura and 1056 more...
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Creatures of My Town 2
Critters observed by me in and around Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Native wildlife only.
corella, pademelon, swift parrot, Pacific gull, kookaburra, silver gull, black swan, bettong, pied oystercatcher, cormorant, possum, green rosella
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bootload's Words
grouse, beaut, ripper, gassit, hack, hacking, twit, spon, goon, rosella, magpie, galah and 184 more...
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Still More Bird Wirds
A work in progress....Birds from around the world (other than endemic to North America).
barbet, hornbill, trogon, bee-eater, bristlehead, wren-babbler, stubtail, blackeye, bush warbler, cassowary, bowerbird, bird-of-paradise and 722 more...
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Peter Carey's Illywhacker
Culling my "Learned (or Encountered) in Reading" list. Thanks for the idea, yarb.
tinea, mingy, blanco, bitzer, mallee fowl, yabbies, coir, bluey, stoush, barney, currawong, providore and 43 more...
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ynaffit's Words
sedulous, vituperative, pullulating, erstwhile, imbroglio, asperity, cynosure, adumbrate, prosopopoeia, peerless, calumny, ague and 272 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for corella.
chained_bear "There were red-tailed cockatoos, casuarina cockatoos, a little corella and a galah."
—Peter Carey, Illywhacker, 461 Apr 18, 2009
reesetee Any of a group of white cockatoos from the subgenus Licmetis. Feb 8, 2008