Deathbird

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Deathbird \Death"bird`\, n. (Zool.)
     Tengmalm's or Richardson's owl ({Nyctale Tengmalmi}); -- so
     called from a superstition of the North American Indians that
     its note presages death.
     [1913 Webster]