varied lorikeet

The varied lorikeet is a parrot endemic to northern Australia. It is called djurrih in all Bininj Gunwok dialects. A famous place Djurrih Kawokbebme 'Varied Lorikeet sings out' is a spectacular waterfall at the southern border of the Ankung Djang 'Honey Dreaming' country on the upper Liverpool River on the Arnhem Land Plateau.

If you click on the Kundedjnjenghmi audio button you can hear the call of djurrih and then Terah Guymala saying this:

Djurrih, namekke djurrih ngarri-ngeybun bu kudjewk ka-kobun njamed, man-burlu, an-burlu ka-kongun, name djurrih ngarri-ngeybun.

We call this bird djurrih, and in the wet season it eats from the flowers of Xanthostemon paradoxus, that's the bird we call djurrih.

If you click on the Kunwinjku audio button Kodjdjan Mary is describing the photograph of Bangardi Maath Maralngurra with his pet baby djurrih.

Djurrih, djurrih ngalekke yaw, ka-karrme Bangardi.

"A varied lorikeet, Bangardi is holding his pet varied lorikeet."