kokako
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of kokako
Māori
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She says the kokako and other native birds have struggled to survive in the country since rats, stoats and possums arrived with European and other settlers beginning hundreds of years ago.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2022
Inger Perkins is leading efforts to find a New Zealand bird called the South Island kokako.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2022
Although Perkins’s team has been searching for the kokako for more than 40 years, she is optimistic that it can be rediscovered and protected.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2022
According to Perkins, the kokako has a call with a “haunting melody” that she and other scientists are trying to capture with acoustic recorders.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2022
The Orange-wattled Crow, or wattled bird, kokako of the Maoris, Glaucopis cinerea, Gml., still seems to be an almost unknown bird as to its nesting habits.
From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris
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