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UK
/ˈɔɪlbɜːd/
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NOUN
- nocturnal fruit-eating bird of South America that has fatty young yielding an oil that is used instead of butter
How To Use oilbird In A Sentence
- Birds in this family are also known, unflatteringly, as oilbirds, frogmouths, and goatsuckers, the last based on an old myth that these birds use their expansive maws to steal milk from goats.
- Echolocation - the trick of emitting sound pulses and navigating by accurate timing of the echoes - has evolved at least four times: in bats, toothed whales, oilbirds and cave swiftlets.
- Birds in this family are also known, unflatteringly, as oilbirds, frogmouths, and goatsuckers, the last based on an old myth that these birds use their expansive maws to steal milk from goats.
- The split-personality, echolocating, cave-dwelling oilbird doesn't seem to know New Scientist - Online News
- Echolocation - the trick of emitting sound pulses and navigating by accurate timing of the echoes - has evolved at least four times: in bats, toothed whales, oilbirds and cave swiftlets.
- Birds in this family are also known, unflatteringly, as oilbirds, frogmouths, and goatsuckers, the last based on an old myth that these birds use their expansive maws to steal milk from goats.
- Accommodations are available to watch various varieties of birds including the oilbirds, which make their home in the nearby Dunston Cave.