goat-sucker

"He's nothing but a shoeless, orc-faced, cheating, goat-sucker bird, and he owes me forty copper!"

Stalling 2010

"I haven't been magicked since I tangled with that goat-sucker bird," Trapspringer said wistfully.

Stalling 2010

On America Online's ParaScope site, launched in April, hundreds of thousands of subscribers read and jabber about everything from UFOs to sightings of El Chupaca - bras, the demon "" goat-sucker '' blamed for various farm-animal deaths in Florida and the Southwest.

Alien Invasion! 2008

The caprimulgus or goat-sucker, swifts, and different kinds of swallows, with a fiery-red bee-eater in flocks, showed that the lowest temperature here does not destroy the insects on which they feed.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Besides this pigeon, the only new bird I obtained during the trip was a rare goat-sucker (Batrachostomus crinifrons), the only species of the genus yet found in the Moluccas.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

The so-called goat-sucker lives on mountains; it is a little larger than the owsel, and less than the cuckoo; it lays two eggs, or three at the most, and is of a sluggish disposition.

The History of Animals 2002

Attacking him was an awas, a medium-sized brown and white bird (completely unrelated to goat-sucker birds) whose long pointed beak was normally used to dig insects from trees.

The Dragons of Krynn Weis, Margaret 1994

"I haven't been magicked since I tangled with that goat-sucker bird," Trapspringer said wistfully.

Kendermore Kirchoff, Mary 1989

"He's nothing but a shoeless, orc-faced, cheating, goat-sucker bird, and he owes me forty copper!"

Kendermore Kirchoff, Mary 1989

One was just as high as the other, and they were both as high as the goat-sucker flies before a thunderstorm.

Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3) James Athearn Jones