yellow-tailed black cockatoo

English

Noun

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

1. A large cockatoo, Zanda funerea syn. Calyptorhynchus funereus, native to southeastern Australia.
   • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 304:

     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.

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

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

Translations

Zanda funerea

• Dutch: geeloograafkaketoe (nl) m