- Bird of prey - Butcherbird - Curved-bill bird - Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the
family Laniidae, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip. Most
shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European gray shrike (Lanius
excubitor), the great northern shrike (L. borealis), and several
others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns,
and are, on that account called also butcher birds. See under Butcher.
- A bird of the Crow family (Fregilus graculus) of Europe. It
is of a black color, with a long, slender, curved bill and red legs; --
also called chauk, chauk-daw, chocard, Cornish chough, red-legged crow.
The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the Alpine chough.
- Curved-bill birds - Large wading birds - Sacred Egyptian birds - Sacred Nile birds - Some businesses I bill for returning birds - Tropical waders - Venerated ancient Egyptian birds
- Coloured bird - Colourful bird - Macaw, say - Repeat mindlessly - Repeat the same standard rubbish - Tropical bird with curved beak - In a general sense, any bird of the order Psittaci.