storm-bird

noun — 2 senses

storm-bird

noun

1

The storm petrel.

2

Australia The channel-billed cuckoo.

That noise, that awful clamour of uncouthness inexpressible, is the love-call of the storm bird!1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 205:

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