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  • noun Plural form of galah.

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Examples

  • I've also had a little company, in the form of the flocks of doves and galahs who've taken to dining in my backyard daily.

    Company esta sketch 2010

  • I drew aside the net and lay listening to the mad, abandoned cries of flocks of pink-and-grey galahs that raced over me now and again, rolling and tumbling, revelling in their early-morning aerobatics.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • I drew aside the net and lay listening to the mad, abandoned cries of flocks of pink-and-grey galahs that raced over me now and again, rolling and tumbling, revelling in their early-morning aerobatics.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • I have seen fantail doves and galahs and cockatoos and rosellas and lorikeets.

    resolved 2009

  • An early start, initially in driving rain and with flocks of suicidal galahs on the road.

    Across the Nullarbor Alex Allan 2009

  • I have seen fantail doves and galahs and cockatoos and rosellas and lorikeets.

    Yatima » 2009 » January 2009

  • Some undesirable had put out poisoned grain and a lot of introduced turtle and laughing doves were killed along with galahs and other natives.

    No, mate, it's Australian! Glenda Larke 2009

  • The area is thick with native birds: Pink and gray galahs and gaudy rosellas flit among the trees and across the bike path, picking at seeds in the exclusion zone between the bike path and the thick shrubbery that shields the naval base from prying cyclists.

    Breaking Away 2009

  • Agricultural use has also allowed galah (Cacatua roseicapella) to invade from arid regions, but galahs ringbark trees and may be contributing to woodland decline.

    Southwest Australia woodlands 2008

  • COOPER: And Jill and Sanach (ph) and Maya (ph) and Lauren in Sydney all, like, e-mailed us, telling us, also, galah is a type of bird, slang for idiot, as in "You guys are acting like a mob of galahs."

    CNN Transcript Feb 28, 2008 2008

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