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- noun Plural form of
corella .
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Examples
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As the full fierce blaze of the sun begins to soften at last, the white cockatoos, the corellas, come in by the thousand, screeching hideously, and they settle on one tree after another, never quite able to make up their minds.
The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001
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Some few days ago not a bird was to be seen scarcely, but a few kite, crows, and galahs; now the whole country seems to be alive with ducks of various kinds, macaws, corellas, cockatoo parrots, and innumerable small birds.
McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia John McKinlay
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It was a permanent waterhole -- Murwidgee, fed by springs, and the white cockatoos and screaming corellas came there and bathed in its waters, and the black swans, and the wild duck, and teal rested there on their way south, when summer had laid his iron hand on the northern plains.
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Lots of ducks of various kinds, cormorants, magpies, corellas, pigeons of various kinds, with the usual accompaniment of crows and hawks.
McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia John McKinlay
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At Clifton, our destination, there was a fine water-hole two and a-half miles long, trees on the banks were crowded with cockatoos, corellas, with galahs in flocks on the plains.
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While at this water we occasionally saw hawks, crows, corellas, a pink-feathered kind of cockatoo, and black magpies, which in some parts of the country are also called mutton birds, and pigeons.
Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866
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Police in talks to shoot cockatoos in Maylands river parkland POLICE officers are in talks with environmental officials to shoot hundreds of corellas along the river in Maylands.
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Regular bird feedings lure rosellas, lorikeets, long-billed corellas and crested pigeons from the trees in the afternoon.
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Naturalists revealed that birds such as wild galahs, sulphur-crested cockatoos and corellas have been heard chattering in the trees after picking up the technique from their domesticated counterparts.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Long-billed and little corellas are an introduced subspecies from New South Wales and are touted as one of the State's most destructive pests.
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