secretary bird in English

noun
1
a slender, long-legged African bird of prey that feeds on snakes, having a crest likened to a quill pen stuck behind the ear.
Or witness Annie Martin, killing kittens and feeding them to a secretary bird on her ostrich farm in South Africa.

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1. In spite of their age, it is not thought that the two species are ancestral to the secretary bird.