mopoke

Nor, I think is it anything to do with the boobook, as the subtle brown owl we called the mopoke is more properly known.

The Kookaburra II 2009

Nor, I think is it anything to do with the boobook, as the subtle brown owl we called the mopoke is more properly known.

Archive 2009-08-01 2009

The budgerigars were all asleep in the big red gum up above, and somewhere along the river bed, the mopoke was calling again.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

It was the boobook owl, mopoke, a totem being to the Arrernte Aborigines of these arid lands along the Macdonnell Ranges to the west of Alice Springs.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

The budgerigars were all asleep in the big red gum up above, and somewhere along the river bed, the mopoke was calling again.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

It was the boobook owl, mopoke, a totem being to the Arrernte Aborigines of these arid lands along the Macdonnell Ranges to the west of Alice Springs.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Then, just as I thought daybreak was near, a great mopoke flits close over our heads without any rustling or noise, like the ghost of a bird, and begins to hoot in a big, bare, hollow tree just ahead of us.

Robbery Under Arms 2004

After a few seconds we heard the cry of the mopoke.

Robbery Under Arms 2004

But the beetles, realizing in a dim, earth-encumbered, lumbering style that it is fatal to emerge either in broad daylight, when many enemies are about, or when night has fallen and the wailing stone curlew and the sedate mopoke and the noisy “chop chop” (nightjar) are prowling, choose the few minutes of dusk for their exit from the moist soil.

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

The gorgeous, garish splendour of sunset pageantry flames out; the long shadows eagerly cover all; the kookaburras laugh their merry mocking good-night; the clouds fade to turquoise, green, and grey; the stars peep shyly out; the soft call of the mopoke arises in the gullies!

My Brilliant Career Miles Franklin 1916