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‖ jabiru|ˈdʒæbɪruː|
Also jaburu, Austral. jaberoo, jabiroo.
[Tupi-Guarani jabirú; also called jabirú guaçú (guaçú or wassú ‘great’).]
A large wading bird of tropical and subtropical America (Mycteria americana), of the stork family. Also applied to the allied Xenorhynchus australis, X. indicus, and X. asiaticus (which is closely related to the tropical American Jabiru mycteria), and Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis, of the Old World.
[1648Marcgrave Hist. Nat. Brasil. 200 Iabiru Brasiliensibus, Belgis vulgo Negro. 1678Ray Ornith. iii. iii. 276 Jabiru guacu [guaçú] of the Petiguares..I have eaten of it often. ]1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1862) II. vi. iv. 179 It will be proper to mention the Jabiru, and the Jabiru Guacu, both natives of Brazil. 1796Stedman Surinam II. 343 The crane, or jabiru, of Surinam, I can best compare to a stork. 1860G. Bennett Gatherings of a Naturalist 195 (Morris), In October, 1858, I succeeded in purchasing a fine living specimen of the New Holland Jabiru, or Gigantic Crane of the colonists (Mycteria Australis). 1896Newton Dict. Birds s.v., Very nearly allied to Mycteria, and also commonly called Jabirus, are the birds of the genera Xenorhynchus and Ephippiorhynchus. 1912A. Searcy By Flood & Field viii. 60 There were also Jaberoo, Spoonbill, Ibis and Spur-wing Plover. 1943W. E. Harney Taboo 158 The jaberoo struts along its sands. 1946I. L. Idriess In Crocodile Land xxxiii. 237 The call of the jabiru. 1952Coast to Coast 1951 211 He had ridden up quietly, and the big, black-and-white, dark-blue-necked jabiroo, pacing slowly on its red-yellow legs at the further end of the lagoon, had not flown away. 1965G. McInnes Road to Gundagai viii. 125 The brick walls dissolved into..polygonum swamps over which the long legged jabiroo flew creaking on its way. 1965Austral. Encycl. V. 114/1 Sometimes the jabiru is quite solitary, hence perhaps the term ‘policeman-bird’, by which it is known in North Queensland. |