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Definition of surgeon bird

surgeon bird
Jacana Jac"a*na`, n. [Cf. Sp. jacania.] (Zo["o]l.) Any of several wading birds belonging to the genus Jacana and several allied genera, all of which have spurs on the wings. They are able to run about over floating water weeds by means of their very long, spreading toes. Called also surgeon bird. Note: The most common South American species is Jacana spinosa. The East Indian or pheasant jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus) is remarkable for having four very long, curved, middle tail feathers.

Meaning of surgeon bird from wikipedia

- Margaret Anne Bulkley, or Bulkeley; c. 1789 – 25 July 1865) was a military surgeon in the British Army. Originally from the city of Cork in Ireland, Barry...
- Moa (order Dinornithiformes) are an extinct group of flightless birds formerly endemic to New Zealand. During the Late Pleistocene-Holocene, there were...
- Philip G; Kappagoda, Tissa (2010). The cry of the "devil-bird" : incidents in the life of a surgeon, working in Ceylon/Sri Lanka, from 1965 to 2000 / Philip...
- individual bird plumage was white, blue, or mixed blue-and-white. In 1790, the white swamphen was scientifically described by the surgeon John White in...
- Golding-Bird may refer to: Golding Bird (1814–1854), British medical doctor Cuthbert Hilton Golding-Bird (1848–1939), British surgeon and son of Golding Bird...
- S. Bryan Mystery Ship D (Dec. 1943) 104 D-104 Gordon S. Seagrave Burma Surgeon D (Dec. 1943) 105 D-105 Harry Emerson Fos**** On Being a Real Person D...
- Cuthbert Hilton Golding-Bird (7 July 1848–16 March 1939) was an English surgeon at Guy's Hospital, fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, and lecturer to medical...
- him up. John consoles himself that Elsie's death will help make a good surgeon and invites the new match wench to his house, though he upsets her when...
- family, Stercorariidae. An older name for the bird is MacCormick's skua, after explorer and naval surgeon Robert McCormick, who first collected the type...
- won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress for Bird (1988). Her other films include The Cotton Club (1984), Ironweed (1987),...