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"etymology_text": "Probably from Yagara garrawaŋ, ultimately onomatopoeic.",
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"word": "black currawong"
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"word": "black-winged currawong"
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"word": "brown currawong"
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"word": "clinking currawong"
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"word": "grey currawong"
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"word": "pied currawong"
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"ref": "1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 68",
"text": "Currawongs and cookaburras woke him early.",
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"ref": "1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 174",
"text": "She has small unblinking eyes like a currawong, turning its head on one side and staring malevolently […].",
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"Any of the three species, and several subspecies, of large, mainly black, predatory passerine birds in the genus Strepera, of the family Artamidae, endemic to Australia."
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"word": "clinking currawong"
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