Deathbird
noun
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Noun
- 1 Tengmalm's owl (Nyctala tengmalmi)
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From a superstition of some North American Indians that it presages death. Compare Salentino Sicilian oceddu de la morte (“owl”, literally “death bird”) and Malagasy vorondolo (“owl”, literally “ghost bird”).
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