English

A currawong

Wikispecies

Noun

currawong ‎(plural currawongs)

1. Any of the three species, and several subspecies, of large, mainly black, predatory passerine birds in the genus Strepera, of the family Artamidae, endemic to Australia.
   • 1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin 2009, p. 68:

     Currawongs and cookaburras woke him early.

   • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 174:

     She has small unblinking eyes like a currawong, turning its head on one side and staring malevolently […].

Derived terms

• black currawong
• black-winged currawong
• brown currawong
• clinking currawong
• grey currawong
• pied currawong