Re: cockatoos, was slide projector sought-health update
Moira jogged my memory of the Australian cockatoos - it's the galah (we were
told to pronounce it gu-LAH) that's pink. It is a crestless cockatoo that is a
soft gray on its upper parts and a gorgeous pale to medium pink on the
undersides. Perhaps this is the cockatoo you were thinking of, Michael, when you
were looking for the name of a pink one. The galahs were common around the
Australian national radio telescope my husband worked on a few years back
(that's how I got to visit, as a tagalong) and were a great trial to the
astronomers and engineers, as the galahs loved to chew through the heavy power
cables on the enormous telescope. As far as naming a rhododendron after one or
the other, though, I doubt galah would do you well at all in marketing, however
correct you were ornithologically. Unless, perhaps, you would consider calling
it "Galah Dahling."
Kay Dreher
Berkeley, CA
