But now he has roused all the cockatoos and parrots, who are screaming their jargon above all other sounds.
Hugh; "I am so famished, that I could eat one of those noisy cockatoos half-cooked, and Margaret looks very pale and weary.
We will be content to reduce the multitude of the noisy impertinent cockatoos and parrots; or suppose, Arthur, we descend to the glade below, where we can cut more wood, and shoot some opossums for our aquiline guest.
I heared themcockatoos flacker and cry out, on yon trees; and depend on't they hear a strange foot.
They had not to wait very long, for presently a great flock of loudly chattering and squealing white cockatoos came flying in a fluttering crowd to the pool.
Small white cockatoos were abundant, and their loud screams, conspicuous white colour, and pretty yellow crests, rendered them a very important feature in the landscape.
I was informed, however, that there were a few cockatoos at one spot on the west of Bali, showing that the intermingling of the productions of these islands is now going on.
For example, among the commonest birds in Lombock were white cockatoos and three species of Meliphagidae or honeysuckers, belonging to family groups which are entirely absent from the western or Indo-Malayan region of the Archipelago.
The pretty Cockatoos are always great favourites, their form being very elegant, their colour delicate, and their talkative powers very great.
The spurwinged plover and the curlew ran swiftly among the grass, and on a tall dead tree white cockatoos and blue cranes watched the intruders curiously.
When a pair of cockatoos made a nest in an acacia tree, "it was ridiculous to see the extravagant interest taken in the matter by the others of the same species.
Cockatoos and of the King Lory, with which the same rule prevails.
In this instance a Cockatoo phratry has not subdivided into Cockatoo totem kins, but two species of Cockatoos head opposite phratries, and are also totem kins in their own phratries.
The reverse is the fact: the two Cockatoos are in opposite phratries.
It is the life here that on the Hill, this here below; and yet the sun is bright, the cockatoos are laughing in the palms, and you hear my linnet singing.
I had brought the gun instead of a rifle, feeling sure that I could get some cockatoos or pigeons on our way back, for we had heard and seen many flying about as soon as we had anchored.
I'll shoot some pigeons and cockatoos by-and-by, and bring them down to the beach.
It was to the honey-laden blossoms of this tree that the noisy cockatoos and parrots used to flock.
These cockatoos were very wild, and when they rose from the ground or the trees made a most discordant noise, their note being, if anything, still more disagreeable than that of either of the others.
At the distance we were from the hills, we had little hope of finding water; on approaching it, however, we alarmed some cockatoos and other birds, and observed the recent tracks of emus in the bed of the creek.
We placed the cart under a gum-tree, in which the cockatoos we had alarmed when descending into the creek had a nest.
These cockatoos were very numerous on the Murray, and are altogether distinct from the genus to which I have compared them; but their note is very similar, and, excepting to a naturalist, the difference is difficult to observe.
With this old lady we endeavoured to enter into conversation, and in order to allay her fears gave her five or six cockatoos we had shot, on which two other fair ones crept from behind the polygonum and advanced towards us.
Cockatoos and parrots that whilst staying in the colony were known to frequent elevated land, and to select the richest and best watered valleys for their temporary location, passed in flights of countless number to the above-mentioned point.
Oh, but I meant parrots and cockatoos and birds of paradise," said the lad hurriedly.
The children, meanwhile, grow up in the Cockatoo and Crow quarters respectively as little Cockatoos or Crows.
During the following six months, especially when the weather was calm and rainy, I frequently noticed pigeons and cockatoos come to the salt water to drink.
Among the variety of birds, several black cockatoos and the pheasant cuckoo were seen.
When the osprey comes skirting the hollows of the hills for cockatoos, its hunger will be unsatisfied until, by elaborate and disdainful manoeuvres, the cockatoos are induced to take flight.
The sea eagles and cockatoos discarded the tree forthwith, and the starlings in a couple of years.
Such trees overhung the water of the Gwydir, forming dense masses of shade, in which white cockatoos (Plyctolophus galeritus) sported like spirits of light.
Cockatoos with scarlet and yellow top-knot, and about six kinds of parrots which were new to us; also some curious small birds.
In the Moluccas and New Guinea, says Mr. Wallace, white cockatoos and gorgeous lories in crimson and blue are the very commonest objects in the local fauna.
One would imagine beforehand that no two birds could be more unlike in every respect than the gaudy, noisy, gregarious cockatoos and the sombre, nocturnal, solitary owls.
We saw a great flight of black cockatoos yesterday.
It is a curious fact that no animals and very few birds can bear the sight of illness, and these cockatoos were no better than the rest.
The cockatoos however did not always care to choose trees for their building places.
The following year, when nesting time came round, the white cockatoos went back to their acacia branch, but were very much disgusted to find a pair of grey parrots there before them, and a little pair of bald round heads peeping over the edge.
At last his master took pity on him, and brought him into the garden, but this so enraged the cockatoos who were already in possession, that they secretly murdered him.
It is one large town of seven districts, with fine houses, all arranged in streets, crotons and other plants growing about, and cockatoos perching in front of nearly every house.
While we were thus employed, a flight of the magnificent cockatoos I have before described settled on some of the branches close to the river.
The idea which passed through my mind was that they were produced by a flock of parrots or cockatoos retiring late to rest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cockatoos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
