alala
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of alala
From Hawaiian ʿalalā “to caw, scream”
Example Sentences
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Twenty-one alala died due to disease and predation, and the remaining six were recaptured.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 28, 2016
The alala, which has been extinct in the wild since 2002, had been released to the Big Island forests on Dec. 14.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 28, 2016
California sea otters have died from toxoplasmosis, and it’s one of the major reasons the Hawaiian crow, alala, is extinct in the wild.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 17, 2016
The effort to save the alala, through a similar breeding and release plan in the 1990s, ended with 21 of the young birds getting eaten by hawks, feral cats and dogs, and other predators.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2016
References to the alala appear in journals from the 1778 expedition of Capt. James Cook, according to a 2006 book on the bird and its travails by Mark Jerome Walters.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2016
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