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Record 1 1990-06-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Birds
OBS

--any of numerous large noisy chiefly Australasian parrots esp. of the genus Kakatoe that are often kept as cage birds many (as the pink --) having large erectile crests [...] [Q 74 6684]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Oiseaux
OBS

les --. (...) perroquet de dimensions moyennes [à] huppe de plumes mobiles au sommet de la tête. // on [le] trouve le plus souvent dans les jardins zoologiques et dans les caravanes des cirques ambulants. [p.162]

OBS

Au Canada, on emploie de préférence "cacatoès".

Spanish

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