brolga

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Gamilaraay burralga

Noun

brolga (plural brolgas)

  1. Grus rubicunda, an Australian crane.
    • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VII, p. 90,
      But he did not value Red Ochre simply as a grazing-lease. At times it was to him six hundred square miles where grazing grew and brolgas danced in the painted sunset and emus ran to the silver dawn […]

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