What is "mopoke"

Usage examples of "mopoke".

Then, just as I thought daybreak was near, a great mopoke flits close over our heads without any rustling or noise, like the ghost of a bird, and begins to hoot in a big, bare, hollow tree just ahead of us.

And even to the present day the Curlews cry mournfully in the woods, and the Mopoke only ventures abroad at night.

Out on the plain she could hear the call of the mopoke in the night, a monotonous sound that seemed to travel over long distances on the wind.