Did you mean locust bird?
Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The rose-colored starling, Pastor roseus: so called from its devouring locusts.
- n. In South Africa, applied to several very different birds, specifically to one of the grackles, Creatophora carunculata.
Examples
“Locust-swarms are followed by a little bird -- named _springkaan-vogel_ or locust-bird -- which comes in such dense flocks as almost to darken the air.”
“If it were not for the locust-bird, which is constantly keeping down their numbers, these destructive insects would probably increase so as to ruin utterly the various regions exposed to their ravages.”
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Bird birds
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