storm-bird

English

Noun

storm-bird (plural storm-birds)

  1. The storm petrel.
  2. (Australia) The channel-billed cuckoo.
    • 1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 205:
      That noise, that awful clamour of uncouthness inexpressible, is the love-call of the storm bird!
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