Cockatoo Parrot

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AUSTRALIAN SAIJIKI

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Cockatoo

***** Location: Australia
***** Season: Summer
***** Category: Animal

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Explanation

This is a summer kigo for central Queensland nr Toowoomba.

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A cockatoo is any of the 21 species belonging to the bird family Cacatuidae. Along with the Psittacidae (the true parrots) and the Strigopidae (the large New Zealand parrots), they make up the parrot order Psittaciformes.

The name cockatoo originated from the Malay name for these birds,
kaka(k)tua (either from kaka "parrot" + tuwah, or "older sister" from kakak "sister" + tua "old").
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Lories and lorikeets (tribe Lorini)
are small to medium-sized arboreal parrots characterized by their specialized brush-tipped tongues for feeding on nectar of various blossoms and soft fruits, preferably berries. The species form a monophyletic group within the parrot family Psittacidae. Traditionally, they were considered a separate subfamily (Loriinae) from the other subfamily (Psittacinae) based on the specialized characteristics, but recent molecular and morphological studies show that the group is positioned in the middle of various other groups.


They are widely distributed throughout the Australasian region, including south-eastern Asia, Polynesia, Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste and Australia, and the majority have very brightly coloured plumage.
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Worldwide use

Kakadu


オーストラリア・ニューギニアのオウム


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India





at the ocean park
a parrot with red shoulders
on the wrist of a juggler

Harvinder Dhaliwal
Joys of Japan, January 2012


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Smoke rises from the cluster of huts towards the fiery clouds. A bent and buck-toothed woman energetically sweeps in front of her hut, and the dust mingles with the smoke. A bare-bottomed toddler is engaged with a scruffy pup in a tug-of-war over a stick. Abruptly he lets go, plunks himself down in the dirt and begins to cry. The woman shakes her broom at the pup and rushes to pick up the child.

burning clouds –
the sky holds scores of swifts
and one parakeet

Johannes Manjrekar
Joys of Japan, January 2012



sometimes on unlikely days that cathedral atmosphere that would ring with echoes if one dared to break the silence –
sometimes, just sometimes, it chrystallises out of monsoon clouds perched on a gulmohar tree, or just from a smell towing a memory.

parakeets –
sometimes the music
of their screeches

Johannes Manjrekar
Joys of Japan, October 2013


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Things found on the way



ON THE WAY
Bodhidharma met a parrot who was kept in a wicker cage. The bird recognized Bodhidharma as a great one, and said:

Mind from the West.
Mind from the West.
Do me a favour and teach me a way
To escape from this cage.

Bodhidharma whispered a secret teaching to help the bird end suffering. He said,

Put out both legs,
Close both eyes.
This is the way
To escape from the cage!

The parrot listened and said, "All right! I understand."

The bird stuck out his legs, closed his eyes, and waited.
When the bird's owner came home from work, he opened the cage door and scooped up the bird - it lay still and quiet in his hand. Thinking the bird had recently died, he slowly opened his hand -
Then the bird suddenly flapped and flew away -

source
http://oaks.nvg.org/bodhidharma.html


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HAIKU

sulphur-crested cockatoos
glide
a green sundown

Alan Summers, UK
1. Azami #35 (haiku magazine, Osaka, Japan) August 1996
2. micropress new zealand vol2 issue5 may 1997
3. micropress yates, Oz edition, apr 1997
4. paperwasp (Australian haiku magazine) winter 1996

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sunlit banksia
black cockatoo and rainbow
I’m in Australia

source : Chris Lynch, Australia


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an orange dawn
circles below the clouds~
rainbow lorikeet

- Shared by Mark Phillip Liston -
Joys of Japan, 2012


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