bullbird

Nfld

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the dovekie, Alle alle; little auk.

Quotations

1861

This year, with the mild weather, there came upon us innumerable quantities of small wild-fowl, called by the settlers "bull-birds."

1958

Many of those Dovekies (locally known as Bullbirds) will later follow the Labrador Current down along the Newfoundland coast.