little corella
noun
: a small, mostly white cockatoo (Cacatua sanguinea) of Australia and southern New Guinea with patches of bare bluish gray skin about the eyes
Little corellas are usually seen in large flocks, such as the one of at least 100 seen near the Swan Bay jetty last month.—
Trevor Pescott, The Geelong (Australia) Advertiser, 31 Mar. 2009
Trevor Pescott, The Geelong (Australia) Advertiser, 31 Mar. 2009At dawn, we would rise and race the noisy flocks of squawking little corellas to the gorges—their naked ocher rock faces pasted against Australia's endless ultramarine sky.—Wayne Arnold, The New York Times, 29 May 2005
Wayne Arnold, The New York Times, 29 May 2005called also bare-eyed cockatoo
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“Little corella.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/little%20corella. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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