Aboriginal information on various Australian bird species
Yaama, gulbiyaay! [gamilaraay, yuwalayaay], Giinagay! [gumbaynggirr], Marang ngindhugir nginha! [wiradjuri], Mirambeena! Orana!
We have started collecting Aboriginal information on various bird
species, in addition to
Aboriginal names for more than 230 species,
from various sources.
Links to Aboriginal information from the main pages on specific bird
species are always marked by the Aboriginal flag 
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Currently Aboriginal information is available for the following
species:
Emu Australian Pelican ("Pelican") Wedge-tailed Eagle ("Eagle-hawk") Black Kite ("Fork-tailed Kite") Brolga Masked Lapwing ("Masked Plover") Bush Stone-curlew ("Curlew") Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo ("Black Cockatoo") Sulphur-crested Cockatoo ("White Cockatoo") Cockatiel Budgerigar Cuckoos Southern Boobook ("Mopoke Owl") Red-capped Robin ("Robin Red Breast") Willie Wagtail Torresian Crow ("Crow") More inclusions will follow as they become available. |
Aboriginal line drawing (laser-cut steel) of an Australian Brush-turkey ("wagun")
displayed at Deriah Aboriginal Area (formerly Deriah
Forest) - artwork shown with kind permission by artist S. Booby
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Disclaimer: Not being of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander origin, we make no claim of intellectual ownership of any of the information presented here. We merely collect facts and stories documented by others. Credits/references are listed HERE.
