buffalo bird

American  

noun

1. a cowbird, Molothrus ater, of North America.

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Etymology

Origin of buffalo bird

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

He hand-pollinated the corn to encourage diversity in the garden, and studied gardener Buffalo Bird Woman’s 1917 account of Hidatsa agriculture.

From Washington Times

I met with community elders and connected with Native chefs, historians and academics, such as the ethnobotanist Nancy J. Turner, and the Lakota author Joseph Marshall III, while also discovering rare historical accounts like “Buffalo Bird Woman’s Garden,” the memories of a 19th-century Hidatsa farmer who lived in what is now North Dakota.

From New York Times

Besides dragon lizards it supports many a deer, boar, water buffalo, bird, snake, insect and a miserable Dutch penal colony.

From Time Magazine Archive

The buffalo bird warns its big friend of danger, by calling "Chachacha," and the rhinoceros bird cries out, "Tye, tye, tye, tye," for the same purpose.

From Project Gutenberg

The Manyuema call the buffalo bird "Mojela," and the Suaheli, "Chassa."

From Project Gutenberg