boatswain-bird
Noun. tropical bird, ''Phaeton oethereus'', often found far from land, whose cry resembles the whistle of a boatswain's pipe.This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.
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