tarangau

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Kuanua: taragau.

Ross (1992:375) notes Kuanua taragau and Ramoaaina taragaau and suggests this could be from either source; cf. also Lihir, New Ireland Province, tarngu, the Brahminy Kite.

Mihalic lists tarangau as including eagles, whereas contemporary speakers distinguish igel from tarangau.

The commonest tarangau are the Black Kite, Milvus migrans, also widely known in Europe, Africa and Asia, seen in groups along bitumen highways and over the Waigani sewerage plant, and in huge numbers (>500) in especially favourable locations (e.g. the chicken offal outfall at Zenag); Brahminy Kite, Haliastur indus, known from India to the Solomon Islands, and rather more common along coastlines; and Osprey, Pandion haliaetus.

Does anyone have a picture of the fishing hook?

See original Mihalic entry.

Proper noun forms

  1. HMPNGS Tarangau Defence Force patrol boat acquired by PNG from Australia under the Defence Cooperation Program and in service from 1987

Noun forms

  1. Bird: any bird of prey of lesser size than an eagle ® igel
    tarangau i wok long pinisim ol kakaruk nabaut hawks are doing away with all our chickens

  1. Material culture: a fishing hook with multiple barbs
    huk long tarangau go fishing with a tarangau hook

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