galah

→ Dutch: galah

From Gamilaraay gilaa.
* (fool): A connection with Malay gila (“mad”) has been suggested, but this explanation has not gained acceptance.
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There were red-tailed cockatoos, casuarina cockatoos, a little corella and a galah.

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 434:

The Galah has benefited from changes in the environment brought about by human activities (Rowley, 1990; Saunders and Ingram, 1995; Forshaw, 2002). The Galah′s diet is predominantly seeds, especially those from cereal crops and agricultural weeds.

2005, David Lindenmayer, Mark A. Burgman, Practical Conservation Biology, page 175:

Eolophus roseicapilla
Eolophus roseicapilla#Translingual

A pink and grey species of cockatoo, Eolophus roseicapilla, native to Australia.

That galah nearly drove me off the road.

‘Don′t just stand there, you great galah, lend a hand here!’ Billy Kemp shoved Edmund towards the longboat. ‘Get it free. The lads are bringing up the casks.’

1991, Patricia Shaw, River of the Sun, unnumbered page:

‘But, Sergeant, I reckon a man would look a proper galah falling about with an empty rifle, going click, click, click, “bang you′re dead” when he wasn′t doing rifle drill on parade, like when it′s not official, know what I mean?’ one of the infantrymen volunteers.

1999, Bryce Courtenay, Solomon's Song, unnumbered page:

‘[…]Then you will strut around like a great galah tryin′ to impress the sheilas about what a fuckin′ big iron ore miner you are.’

2006, John Chalmers, The Professional Guest, page 13:

Nicky: 'Of course I came. You called me. I am here to help you.' (NICKY sneezes) / Sam: 'You called this galah?'

2020, "Moments of Silence", in Taskmaster, series 10, episode 8, Channel 4, character scripts in The Smart Steak


cockatoo

→ Irish: cocatú

→ Maori: kokatu, koketu

From Dutch kaketoe, borrowed from Malay kakaktua, kakatua. Spelling influenced by cock.

We saw some cockatoos in the aviary.

A bird of the family Cacatuidae with a curved beak and a zygodactyl foot.


cockatiel

From Dutch kaketielje, possibly a diminutive of kaketoe (“cockatoo”) or derived in Dutch from a diminutive of Portuguese cacatua (“cockatoo”) such as cacatilho or cacatelho. Attested in English since the mid nineteenth century.

The smaller parrakeets, such as budgerigars, turquoisines, and love birds, delight In going in and out of the cocoa nuts, but I never saw a cockatiel enter one, nor do I see how they could do so without detriment to their long tails.

1871, Norfolk (pseudonym), “Cockatiels”, in The Exchange and Mart, volume 4, number 139, page 481:

Nymphicus hollandicus
Nymphicus hollandicus#Translingual

Nymphicus hollandicus, a small, rather atypical cockatoo with a distinctive pointed yellow crest, native to Australia. Avicultural forms come in many color mutations such as White Face Gray, White Face Pearl, Fallow, Pearl Pied, Cinnamon Pearl, and White Face Pied.


Major Mitchell's cockatoo

en-noun

Major Mitchell's cockatoo (plural Major Mitchell's cockatoos)

Named after the Australian explorer Major Thomas Mitchell.

Lophochroa leadbeateri
Lophochroa leadbeateri#Translingual

A cockatoo of species Cacatua leadbeateri (syn. Lophochroa leadbeateri), having distinctive salmon pink plumage and a bright red and yellow crest, principally of arid Australia.


cocky

term-label

(chiefly Australia, New Zealand, informal)

The noun is derived from cock(atoo) + -y (diminutive suffix). The verb is derived from the noun.

By that time, the white cockatoo—a beautiful bird, as large as a common fowl—would find out the family gathering-place, and waddle along, calling 'Pretty Cocky! Pretty Cocky!' […] Presently, Cocky ruffles his plumage till he looks half as large again as before; he throws his crest, with its double fan of brilliantly yellow feathers, as far forward as possible, and spreads and closes it rapidly.

1868 October, M. G. Sleeper, “Pets and Sports in Tasmania”, in Merry’s Museum, for Boys and Girls, volume 1 (New Series), number 10, Boston, Mass.: Horace B. Fuller, publisher, […], published 1869, →OCLC, page 399:

"Hello Cocky! What yer want?" This in a more-than-human voice from a fine sulphur-crested cockatoo. "Hello Cocky!" His thick black tongue worked in his narrow mouth. So absolutely human the sound, and yet a bird's.

1923, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Willie Struthers and Kangaroo”, in Kangaroo, London: Martin Secker […], →OCLC, page 229:

Visit the local store at Coles Bay and you're greeted by a talking cocky called Jim. […] [A]s we bid farewell to this environmental showpiece, Jim the talking cocky is again the centre of attention …

2005 August 5, Tim Jeanes, “Town Seeks Environmental Accreditation”, in The World Today, Australian Broadcasting Commission, archived from the original on 2017-10-01:

One afternoon a flock of glossy black cockatoos alights on a cluster of she-oaks in the western corner of the yard where they screech in ear-splitting decibels until dusk. […] [H]e tells her that the arrival of black cockies is a portent of rain. But the rain doesn't come.

2008, Amanda Lohrey, Vertigo: A Novella, Melbourne, Vic.: Black Inc., Schwartz Publishing, →ISBN; Vertigo: A Pastoral, 2nd edition, Melbourne, Vic.: Black Inc., Schwartz Publishing, 2009, →ISBN, pages 57–58:

He smacked his lips a couple of times and grimaced. God, his mouth tastled like the bottom of a cockie’s cage. Probably smelt as appealing too.

2011, Barry Simiana, chapter 15, in A Touch of Evil, [Morrisville, N.C.?]: Nitewriter Media, →ISBN, page 131:

Next comes the rosellas and the cockatoos and the rest of the local parrots. Their singing is much heartier, and they begin to drown out their cousins. Finally Kate can hear a galah, his deep-throated song is interrupted by the cockies, but he is persistent in his welcome to the day.

2012, Samantha Carter, “Hard Won Rewards”, in All Secrets Told, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 61:

(informal) A familiar name for a cockatoo.


yellowtail

en-noun

yellowtail (plural yellowtails or yellowtail)

yellowtails (plural)
yellowtail (plural)

Any of various fish with yellow tails, including:

yellowtail amberjack
yellowtail amberjack

Seriola lalandi
Seriola lalandi#Translingual

Japanese amberjack (Seriola quinqueradiata), native to the northwest Pacific, often used in sushi, .

yellow-tailed black cockatoo
yellow-tailed black cockatoo

Calyptorhynchus funereus
Calyptorhynchus funereus#Translingual

A yellow-tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus), a large cockatoo native to the south-east of Australia.

A yellow-tailed woolly monkey (Oreonax flavicauda), a New World primate endemic to Peru.


sulfur cockatoo

sulfur cockatoo (plural sulfur cockatoos)

sulfur-crested cockatoo
sulfur-crested cockatoo


sulphur-crested cockatoo

sulphur-crested cockatoo (plural sulphur-crested cockatoos)

[A] mob of sulphur-crested cockatoos took roost above her inspiration of Wordsworth's latest rewriting of The Prelude […].

2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 223:

Cacatua galerita
Cacatua galerita#Translingual

A large Australian cockatoo, Cacatua galerita, with a yellow erectile crest.


arara

Probosciger aterrimus
Probosciger aterrimus#Translingual

The palm (or great black) cockatoo of Australia (Probosciger aterrimus).


corella

A flock of white corellas stared with black beady eyes as Warren Finch and the girl passed by, then continued gnawing with sharp pointy beaks on the paddy melons held in their claws.

2013, Alexis Wright, The Swan Book, Constable (2016), page 204:

Any of several species of white cockatoo of the subgenus Licmetis within genus Cacatua.


weero

From wiru, its name in several north-western Australian Aboriginal languages.

(Western Australia) A cockatiel, Nymphicus hollandicus.


wee juggler

Major Mitchell's cockatoo
Major Mitchell's cockatoo

Major Mitchell's cockatoo, Lophochroa leadbeateri.


gang-gang

He carried the two gang-gang cockatoos in a ferret box.

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 433:

Callocephalon fimbriatum
Callocephalon fimbriatum#Translingual

A kind of cockatoo (Callocephalon fimbriatum).


cacatuid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Cacatuidae, the cockatoos.


black cockatoo

Black cockatoos filled the air above her and their harsh screeching seemed only to echo the hostile nature of the bush.

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber & Faber, published 2003, page 95:

As we walked up to one of the gum trees, a flock of black cockatoos flew out, squawking like rusty hinges, and settled on a dead gum up ahead.

1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 128:

Any of various species of Australian cockatoo of the genera Calyptorhynchus and Zanda having mainly black plumage; sometimes also the great black cockatoo, Probosciger aterrimus.

raafkaketoe

black cockatoo, particularly of the genus Calyptorhynchus


yellow-tailed black cockatoo

yellow-tailed black cockatoo (plural yellow-tailed black cockatoos)

Charles, to his everlasting pride and eternal shame, sold his yellow-tailed black cockatoo to the man in the pet shop outside whose establishment fortune decreed we should come to rest.

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 304:

[T]he shrieks of yellow-tailed black cockatoos are said to be the lament of dead Aboriginal children.

2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 9

A large cockatoo, Zanda funerea syn. Calyptorhynchus funereus, native to southeastern Australia.


casuarina cockatoo

casuarina cockatoo (plural casuarina cockatoos)

There were red-tailed cockatoos, casuarina cockatoos, a little corella and a galah.

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 434:

glossy black cockatoo
glossy black cockatoo

Calyptorhynchus lathami
Calyptorhynchus lathami#Translingual

The glossy black cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus lathami.


little corella

The little corella has historically been confined to the northeast corner of South Australia but spread with the development of agriculture and irrigation, which provided new water and food sources.

2018 April 6, Royce Kurmelovs, The Guardian:

Cacatua sanguinea
Cacatua sanguinea#Translingual

A white cockatoo, Cacatua sanguinea, native to Australia and southern New Guinea.


palm cockatoo

→ Dutch: palmkaketoe (calque)

Probosciger aterrimus, a large smoky-grey or black parrot of the cockatoo family native to New Guinea and far north Queensland, Australia, with a large black beak and prominent red cheek patches.


Tanimbar corella

Tanimbar corella (plural Tanimbar corellas)

Cacatua goffiniana
Cacatua goffiniana#Translingual

Cacatua goffiniana, a near-threatened species of cockatoo endemic to forests of certain islands of the Tanimbar Islands archipelago of Indonesia.


Goffin's cockatoo

Goffin's cockatoo (plural Goffin's cockatoos)

Tanimbar corella
Tanimbar corella#English


wyla

Likely from a Pama-Nyungan language; compare Awabakal waiila (“black cockatoo”).

The natives tell me of another kind of Cockatoo (besides Wyla and Geringora), which they call Carat’. It is very shy.

1826, N.A. Vigors, Thomas Horsefield, “A description of the Australian birds in the collection of the Linnean Society”, in Transactions of the Linnean Society, volume 15, page 273:

The dark-plumaged funereal cockatoo or wyla (Calyptorhynchus funereus) is another Australian species.

1952, Encyclopædia Britannica, A New Survey of Universal Knowledge, page 912:

The yellow-tailed black cockatoo or funereal cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus funereus, a bird native to Australia.


white cockatoo

Even flocks of white cockatoos flying in a cloud along the beach like an angel with flapping wings, raucously cried for him.

2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 92:

sulphur-crested cockatoo
sulphur-crested cockatoo

Any of various cockatoos having predominantly white plumage:

The sulphur-crested cockatoo, Cacatua galerita, of Australia.


Goffin's corella

Goffin's corella (plural Goffin's corellas)


Leadbeater's cockatoo

Leadbeater's cockatoo (plural Leadbeater's cockatoos)

Named after the London naturalist and taxidermist Benjamin Leadbeater, who provided what would become the type specimen.

Major Mitchell's cockatoo
Major Mitchell's cockatoo#English


pink cockatoo

A big pink cockatoo that had sat in a tulip tree and watched the maneuvers of the intruders with a great show of interest, fled squalling from her perch[…]

1922, Charles Billings Stilson, Charles Beahan, The Island God Forgot:


cockatoo parrot

cockatoo parrot (plural cockatoo parrots)


red-tailed black cockatoo

red-tailed black cockatoo (plural red-tailed black cockatoos)

Calyptorhynchus banksii
Calyptorhynchus banksii#Translingual

A large species of cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus banksii, endemic to Australia, the males of which have red markings in their tails.


umbrella cockatoo

umbrella cockatoo (plural umbrella cockatoos)

A medium-sized all-white cockatoo endemic to the tropical rainforests and islands of Indonesia.