The story
Compound of doctor + bird. The bird, endemic to Jamaica, is so named because its tail resembles a stethoscope.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
doctor bird
doc·tor·birdToday it means: Trochilus polytmus; a red-billed streamertail; scissor-tail hummingbird; scissors tail hummingbird (hummingbird) Full definition →