brolga

From Gamilaraay burralga.

brolga (plural brolgas)

1. A large grey crane (Antigone rubicunda, syn. Grus rubicunda), of northern and eastern Australia. [from 19th c.]
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VII, in Capricornia‎^[1], page 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 […] .

   • 2006, Tara June Winch, Swallow the Air, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 241:

     We wade through the delicate water, the moon spilling on our colourless bodies. Brolgas ruffling their wings against water ribbons, making the muddy bath flinch in coiling waves.

• Australian crane, native companion

• brolga on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Antigone rubicunda on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

• Barlog, Bolgar, Bolğar, balrog, globar

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