moonbird
nounEtymology From moon + bird, apparently because the birds return to nesting sites after nightfall.
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Australia The mutton bird.
- He survived for several months upon the moonbirds’ fatty mutton-like meat & the solace provided by the one book washed up with him […].2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 167: