adjutant bird

noun

1. either of two large carrion-eating storks, Leptoptilos dubius or L. javanicus, which are closely related and similar to the marabou and occur in S and SE Asia

Word History and Origins

Origin of adjutant bird¹

so called for its supposedly military gait

Example Sentences

Moreover, where is his authority for representing an adjutant bird as an ordinary London fowl?

From Project Gutenberg

A few days afterwards he was accompanying the king when an adjutant-bird was seen in a tree.

From Project Gutenberg

The adjutant bird is a stork which has acquired the habits of the vulture.

From Project Gutenberg

I knew him at once to be an adjutant bird—the chief of fishermen.

From Project Gutenberg