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dung bird
dung bird n. now historical and rare (a) the hoopoe, Upupa epops, which was formerly believed to build its nest from human excrement; (b) any of various Old World vultures, esp. the Cape vulture, Gyps coprotheres, and the Egyptian vulture, Neophron percnopterus; (c) any of various seabirds formerly thought to feed on the dung of other seabirds; = dung hunter n.
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1677 W. Charleton Exercitationes de Differrentiis et Nominibus Animalium (ed. 2) 98 Nidum enim ex stercore humano fingit in arboribus excavatis,..quod vulgo the Dung-bird dicatur.
1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope II. 136 The Size of this Eagle, or Dung-Bird, is something larger than that of a Wild Goose.
1768 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) I. ii. 195 The Hoopoe... The Dung Bird.
1793 J. Leslie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Birds VIII. 400 (heading) The Labbe, or Dung-bird.
1870 Canad. Nat. 5 407 This and the preceding [sc. Pomarine Skua and Arctic Skua] are called ‘dung birds’.., evidently from the manner in which they persecute the smaller species of Laridæ, and devour not only their disgorged food but also their fœces.
1885 E. Balfour Cycl. India (ed. 3) III. 581/1 The Dung kite or Dung bird, Neophron percnopterus, Linn.,..is abundant southwards from Bengal, also in N. Africa, W. Asia, S. Europe, and even in England.
?1959 G. Theiner tr. O. Štěpánek Birds Field & Forest 40 The nest is unambitious, merely a few chips or dead leaves, generally mixed with animal excrement, which habit has earned the bird the name of Dung Bird.
2008 P. Burger Birds Namibia 201 (heading) The Vultures. Dreckvogel, assvoëls, dung birds?
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