brolgaEtymologyFrom Gamilaraay burralga.nounA large grey crane (Antigone rubicunda, syn. Grus rubicunda), of northern and eastern Australia.“But he did not value Red Ochre simply as a grazing-lease. At times it was to him six hundred square miles where grazing grew and brolgas danced in the painted sunset and emus ran to the silver dawn […].”