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brolga
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brolga [ˈbrɒlgə]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a large grey Australian crane, Grus rubicunda, having a red-and-green head and a trumpeting call Also called Australian crane native companion
[from a native Australian language]


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Flood plains had disappeared, including the wetland where, as a child, she had watched brolgas dance.
It is black box and river red gum country, where brolgas once danced in the moonlight and brush turkeys fed in the scrub.
The first day she did warm up activities with them--one at a time stepping one pace in from a large circle to call out loudly her/his name, then acting like cockroaches, then brolgas.
 
 
 
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