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currawong

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currawong [ˈkʌrəˌwɒŋ]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any Australian crowlike songbird of the genus Strepera, having black, grey, and white plumage: family Cracticidae Also called bell magpie
[from a native Australian name]
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Noun1.currawong - bluish black fruit-eating bird with a bell-like call
bell magpie
Australian magpie - black-and-white oscine birds that resemble magpies
genus Strepera, Strepera - bell magpies
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Woolacott's Currawong Publishing Company (Sydney) in December 1941, and certainly printed by 1943 but almost certainly never issued.
Three neglected women writers of the 1930s: Jean Campbell, 'Capel ... by De Lacy, Gavin / The La Trobe Journal
`Over most of southern Australia, entire avifaunas are threatened with extinction and, when allowance is made for regional habitat loss and degradation, 30-90% of bird species across the continent have declined in abundance,' he says Other birds, such as the currawong and galah, have increased greatly, a factor seen by Recher as further evidence of ecological malaise.
Facing extinction: the birds of southern Australia's agricultural ... by Ecos
The Battle of Coral: Fire Support Bases Coral and Balmoral May 1968, Lex McAulay, Hutchinson Australia, 1988 Hell and High Fever, David Selby, Currawong Publishing Co, 1956 The Guns of King Georges Sound.
Artillery and Australia by Whitelaw, John / Sabretache
 
 
 
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