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Brolgah Metamorphosis Legend
Brolgas are most famous for their mating dance. In Queensland Australia the breeding season is in November and December. A pair of brolgas spread their wings and leap and dance gracefully before mating. Brolgas stay with the same partner for life.
After mating, the female brolga lays 2 eggs in a nest. It is a one and a half metre platform of grass and reeds. Both parents share the task of sitting on the eggs, which hatch after about 30 days. The young stay with their parents for about a year.
The Dreamtime Legend of the Brolga
An Aboriginal legend tells of a beautiful young woman who always danced instead of working. She was turned into a tall, slender bird. Her name was Bralgah. The complicated dance of the brolga is imitated by the Aborigines in some of their ceremonial dances. The Brolga has been a sacred totem for thousands of years to some indigenous clans meaning that it can’t be harmed or hunted for food. In this final painting of my Brolga series the dancer Bralgah is about to turn into the Brolga as we now know it to populate the northern subtropics of Australia.