megatick

English

Etymology

mega- +‎ tick

Noun

megatick (plural megaticks)

1. (slang, ornithology) A very rare bird.
   • 1992, American Birding Association, Birding, Volumes 24-25 (page 69)

     Megacrex is surely a megatick! I know of only two birders who have seen this bird, and thus I had no expectation of seeing it myself during a trip to New Guinea...

   • 2000, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Birds, Volume 18 (page 128)

     They all looked as if they walked the Pennine Way for a megatick before breakfast.

   • 2003, Sophie Warne, Gabon, São Tomé and Príncipe (page 30)

     Birders come here to look for Finch's francolin, Congo moor chat and black- chinned weaver, among others. Other 'megaticks' include the distinctive black-collared bulbul, Petit's cuckoo-shrike, Salvadori's eremomela, yellow-bellied hyliota, Joanna's sunbird, the sought-after black-headed bee-eater and Ludher's bush shrike.