jackbird

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noun

A saddleback (Philesturnus) in its first-year plumage, once thought to be a separate species.

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Meanings

nounjackbird (plural jackbirds)

plural jackbirds

  1. A saddleback (Philesturnus) in its first-year plumage, once thought to be a separate species.

    The young bird had the plumage of the saddleback, not the even chestnut of the jackbird, although its plumage was rather duller than that of the adult.

    1959, Robert Adams Wilson, Bird Islands of New Zealand, page 67
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