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!