Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The New Zealand wattle-crow, Callæas or Glaucopis cinerea. See Glaucopis.
Examples
“The South Island kokako is now listed as officially extinct, but one of its most dedicated fans is still a believer.”
“An amateur ornithologist claims he saw a South Island kokako from about 20 meters.”
“Another article on the search for the South Island kokako in New Zealand.”
“Mr Nilsson, a self-taught bird expert who has worked for the Wildlife Service, said he knew it was a kokako because of its size and behaviour.”
“Less than a year ago, veteran searchers seeking signs of the kokako unsuccessfully searched a valley east of Puysegur Point in Fiordland National Park for signs of the grey bird with orange wattles at each side of the beak.”
“In recent years, searches for the South Island kokako have been in Granville State Forest in the West Coast's Grey Valley and further north in the Paparoa Range near Charleston.”
“For the veteran searchers seeking signs of the long-lost South Island kokako, a valley east of Puysegur Point in Fiordland National Park sounds like a breakthrough.”
“Conservation officials today formally declared the South Island kokako extinct, saying there had been no confirmed sightings for 40 years.”
“Rod Hitchmough, a scientific officer at the Department of Conservation (DOC) told a press briefing in Wellington that the kokako decision had attracted controversy.”
“That South Island kokako investigation team included Christchurch researcher Ron Nilsson, who has spent 20 years searching remote valleys in Nelson, Westland, Fiordland and Stewart Island.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘kokako’.
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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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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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Former ghosts
Ghost words that I've adopted because the original listers abandoned them. Yarb has more in his Adoption agency, and many orphlings are tagged as ghosted, ghost phrases, misspellings, or typos.
orphling, listkeeper, grandmotherly, scroogish, theocon, frownie, afternoons, loggin, supercalliwhat, avunculate, kokako, stygimolochs and 379 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for kokako.
reesetee "Threatened North Island Kokako have been discovered nesting in Auckland’s Waitakere Ranges for the first time in 80 years." Yay! Nov 28, 2010
chained_bear See usage on tui. Sep 22, 2008
bilby Haha both of you! Dec 31, 2007
reesetee Well...okay. If it's orthodox ornithological orthography you're after, then it's excusable in my book. Dec 31, 2007
mollusque He ghosted supercalliwhat too. Maybe he's channeling uselessness. Dec 31, 2007
bilby Just decided to fancy up the written version. Can't have awful ornithological orthography, can I? Dec 31, 2007
reesetee A ghost word, bilby? You? Dec 31, 2007
bilby A New Zealand wattlebird. Dec 30, 2007