Meanings
nounMajor Mitchell (plural Major Mitchells)
plural Major Mitchells
- A Major Mitchell's cockatoo.
Three Major Mitchells are on the left with their foster sibling, a galah, the latter's mother having laid an egg in the Major Mitchell's nest. All are marked with conspicuous wing tags which allowed them to be followed in the wild.
2012, Aubrey Manning, Marian Stamp Dawkins, An Introduction to Animal Behaviour, page 47
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