doctor bird

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doctor bird

Etymology

Compound of doctor +‎ bird. The bird, endemic to Jamaica, is so named because its tail resembles a stethoscope.

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Noun

doctor bird (plural doctor birds)

  1. Trochilus polytmus; a red-billed streamertail; scissor-tail hummingbird; scissors tail hummingbird (hummingbird)
    The red-billed streamertail, also known as the doctor bird, is a hummingbird which is indigenous to Jamaica.
    • 2021, Leone Ross, This One Sky Day, Faber & Faber Limited, page 125:
      He listened to the zip of doctor birds at the window and the peach trees in the wind.

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