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adjutant bird
noun
- 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
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of adjutant bird1
so called for its supposedly military gait
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Moreover, where is his authority for representing an adjutant bird as an ordinary London fowl?
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In another enclosure, cranes and adjutant birds flapped their great wings, and made long, hopping jumps, and then stood still, as if posing for their pictures.
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I knew him at once to be an adjutant bird—the chief of fishermen.
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When I arrived, hat in hand, he smiled, examined my firearms, and proceeded for sport, leading the way to a high tree, on which some adjutant birds were nesting, and numerous vultures resting.
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