According to the second edition of the Australian Department of the Environment and Energy’s “Numbers of Living Species in Australia and the World,” 2nd edition, there are 828 (plus 13 identified as extinct in the wild and another 27 as introduced) species of birds in Australia. And as with so many other things in Oz, a generous portion of these have names, common or scientific alike, reflective of their Australian home, it’s history, and the languages of its first peoples that simply cry out like a flock of White Cockatoos for an explanation of their origin.