Definition of "ricebird" [rice•bird]

• Chiefly Southern U.S. See bobolink. (noun)
• Any of various birds that frequent rice fields. (noun)

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• "I believe it the least effective of the various things devised by the Igorot to protect his rice from the multitudes of ti-lin '-- the small, brown ricebird [25] found broadly over the Archipelago."
• "When the woman uncovered the basket, Tilin, the little brown ricebird, flew away, calling:"
• "Thinking this barbarity over, I started to get indignant; but just in time I remembered what we ourselves have done to decimate the canvas-back duck and the wild pigeon and the ricebird and the red-worsted pulse-warmer, and other pleasing wild creatures of the earlier days in America, now practically or wholly extinct."