ostrich

ostriches (plural)
estridge (alternative)

/ˈɒs.tɹɪt͡ʃ/

/ˈɒs.tɹɪd͡ʒ/

/ˈɔs.tɹɪt͡ʃ/

/ˈɑs.tɹɪt͡ʃ/

/ˈɔs.tɹɪd͡ʒ/

/ˈɑs.tɹɪd͡ʒ/

From Middle English ostrich, ostriche, ostryche, ostrige, borrowed from Anglo-Norman ostrige and Old French ostruce, from Vulgar Latin *austruthio, from Latin avis (“bird”) + strūthiō (“ostrich”), from Ancient Greek στρουθίων (strouthíōn), or shortened from strūthiocamēlus, from Ancient Greek στρουθιοκάμηλος (strouthiokámēlos), from στρουθός (strouthós, “sparrow”) + κάμηλος (kámēlos, “camel”). Compare Spanish avestruz and Portuguese avestruz.

der

στρουθιοκάμηλος

(golf) The hypothetical completion of a hole five strokes under par (a quintuple birdie, quadruple eagle, triple albatross, or double condor).


Darwin's rhea

Named for Charles Darwin, with the genus name Rhea.

A small rhea, Rhea pennata, found from Patagonia to the high Andes.


kiwi

en-noun

kiwi (countable and uncountable, plural kiwi or kiwis)

→ Catalan: kiwi

→ Dutch: kiwi

→ French: kiwi

→ German: Kiwi

→ Korean: 키위 (kiwi)

→ Polish: kiwi

desc

→ Portuguese: quivi, quiuí, kiwi (unadapted)


rhea

Boehmeria nivea
Boehmeria nivea#Translingual

Ramie (Boehmeria nivea), a fiber-yielding plant.


cassowary

Any large flightless bird of the genus Casuarius that is native to Australia and New Guinea, has a characteristic bony crest on its head, and can be very dangerous.

kasuaris

a large flightless bird of the genus Casuarius


emu

A bar magnet NS has poles of strength 144 emu, 5 cm apart.

1941, Henry A[ugustus Perkins], edited by E[dward] U[hler] Condon, College Physics (Prentice-Hall Physics Series), New York, N.Y.: Prentice-Hall, →OCLC, page 403:

Rock Magnetic Properties as Related to a Magnetometer Profile for Serpentines, Sierra Nevada, California / DuBOIS, ROBERT L., Dept. Geology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz. / The remanent magnetism of a suite of specimens from a serpentine mass in the Sierra Nevada, California, has a declination of N. 32°E. and an inclination of plus 84°. The average intensity is 80 × 10⁻⁵ emu/cc.

1962, “Abstracts of Papers Submitted for the Meeting in Houston: November 12–14, 1962”, in Geological Society of America: Abstracts for 1962: Abstracts of Papers Submitted for Six Meetings with which the Society was Associated (Special GSA Papers; no. 73), New York, N.Y.: Geological Society of America, published 1963, →OCLC, page 141:

The amount of charge named by one emu is that which produces a unit magnetic effect when flowing in a current at one unit length per second.

1974, William Berkson, “Maxwell’s Field Theory”, in Fields of Force: The Development of a World View from Faraday to Einstein, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, →ISBN; republished Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2014, →ISBN, page 168:

Early investigations showed no detectable magnetic intensity in tektite glass, at the level of about 10⁻⁴ emu/g. (To convert measurements in emu/g to S.I., multiply by 10³.)

1976, John Aloysius O’Keefe, Tektites and Their Origin (Developments in Petrology; 4), Amsterdam, New York, N.Y.: Elsevier Scientific Pub. Co., →OCLC, page 109:

Experimentally the magnetic moment is usually given in units of emu/g, emu/cm³ or emu/mole.

2005, Peter Mohn, “Experimental Basis of Ferromagnetism”, in Magnetism in the Solid State: An Introduction (Solid-State Sciences), Berlin: Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 39:

electromagnetic unit
electromagnetic unit#English

(physics) Initialism of electromagnetic unit.


moa

Borrowed from Maori moa, from Proto-Polynesian *moa (“fowl”).

The moas (order Dinornithiformes) of New Zealand are likewise extinct but almost certainly some still survived when Tasman first sighted the islands in 1642.

2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 29:

For instance, the little bush moa fed nearly exclusively on forest vegetation, whereas the heavy-footed moa was a grazer in open vegetation habitats.

2018 April 4, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian:

Any of several species of large, extinct, flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae that were native to New Zealand; until its extinction, one species was the largest bird in the world.


ratite

From Latin ratis (“raft”) + -ite; ratites (unlike other birds) lack a keel on their sternum, and rafts are vessels that lack keels.

A member of a diverse group of mostly large, running, flightless birds that lack keels on their sternums, mostly extinct such as the elephant bird and moa, but including the extant cassowaries, emu, kiwi, ostrich, and rhea; formerly grouped together in the order Struthioniformes, and including the Paleognathae except the tinamous.


tinamou

Borrowed from French tinamou, from Kari'na inamu (“great tinamou”).

Any of the birds belonging to the South American family Tinamidae, the only family in the order Tinamiformes. They are related to the ratites, together with which they form the superorder Paleognathae.


nandu

nandus (plural)
nandou (alternative)
nandow (alternative)

From French nandou from Spanish ñandú from Guaraní ñandu guasu.


struthious

en-adj

struthious (comparative more struthious, superlative most struthious)

more struthious (comparative)
most struthious (superlative)

From Latin strūthiō (“ostrich”) + -ous (“relating to”).

af

(ornithology) like an ostrich or other ratite


Aepyornis

/iːpɪˈɔːnɪs/

From scientific Latin Aepyornis (genus name).

I wonder how long it is since these Aepyornises really lived.

For how long the Aepyornis survived the arrival of Europeans was, and remains, a mystery.

2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 35:

An elephant bird of the genus Aepyornis.


great spotted kiwi

en-noun

great spotted kiwi (plural great spotted kiwis)

Apteryx haastii
Apteryx haastii#Translingual


little spotted kiwi

little spotted kiwi (plural little spotted kiwis)

Apteryx owenii
Apteryx owenii#Translingual


Okarito brown kiwi

Okarito brown kiwi (plural Okarito brown kiwis)

A recently identified kind of kiwi, of species Apteryx rowi.


tokoeka

Apteryx australis
Apteryx australis#Translingual

(New Zealand) A kiwi, Apteryx australis.


North Island brown kiwi

North Island brown kiwi (plural North Island brown kiwis)

Apteryx mantelli
Apteryx mantelli#Translingual

A kiwi, Apteryx mantelli or Apteryx australis.


white-throated tinamou

white-throated tinamou (plural white-throated tinamous)

Tinamus guttatus
Tinamus guttatus#Translingual


solitary tinamou

solitary tinamou (plural solitary tinamous)

Tinamus solitarius
Tinamus solitarius#Translingual


black tinamou

Tinamus osgoodi
Tinamus osgoodi#Translingual


great tinamou

Tinamus major
Tinamus major#Translingual


highland tinamou

highland tinamou (plural highland tinamous)

Nothocercus bonapartei
Nothocercus bonapartei#Translingual


tawny-breasted tinamou

tawny-breasted tinamou (plural tawny-breasted tinamous)

Nothocercus julius
Nothocercus julius#Translingual


hooded tinamou

Nothocercus nigrocapillus
Nothocercus nigrocapillus#Translingual


Berlepsch's tinamou

Berlepsch's tinamou (plural Berlepsch's tinamous)

Named to commemorate German ornithologist and collector Hans von Berlepsch.

Crypturellus berlepschi
Crypturellus berlepschi#Translingual


little tinamou

Crypturellus soui
Crypturellus soui#Translingual


cinereous tinamou

cinereous tinamou (plural cinereous tinamous)

Crypturellus cinereus
Crypturellus cinereus#Translingual


Tepui tinamou

Crypturellus ptaritepui
Crypturellus ptaritepui#Translingual


brown tinamou

Crypturellus obsoletus
Crypturellus obsoletus#Translingual


undulated tinamou

undulated tinamou (plural undulated tinamous)

Crypturellus undulatus
Crypturellus undulatus#Translingual


pale-browed tinamou

pale-browed tinamou (plural pale-browed tinamous)


Brazilian tinamou

Brazilian tinamou (plural Brazilian tinamous)

Crypturellus strigulosus
Crypturellus strigulosus#Translingual


grey-legged tinamou

grey-legged tinamou (plural grey-legged tinamous)

Crypturellus duidae
Crypturellus duidae#Translingual


red-legged tinamou

red-legged tinamou (plural red-legged tinamous)

Crypturellus erythropus
Crypturellus erythropus#Translingual


yellow-legged tinamou

yellow-legged tinamou (plural yellow-legged tinamous)

Crypturellus noctivagus
Crypturellus noctivagus#Translingual


black-capped tinamou

black-capped tinamou (plural black-capped tinamous)

Crypturellus atrocapillus
Crypturellus atrocapillus#Translingual


thicket tinamou

thicket tinamou (plural thicket tinamous)

Crypturellus cinnamomeus
Crypturellus cinnamomeus#Translingual


slaty-breasted tinamou

slaty-breasted tinamou (plural slaty-breasted tinamous)

Crypturellus boucardi
Crypturellus boucardi#Translingual


Choco tinamou

Crypturellus kerriae
Crypturellus kerriae#Translingual


variegated tinamou

variegated tinamou (plural variegated tinamous)

Crypturellus variegatus
Crypturellus variegatus#Translingual


rusty tinamou

Crypturellus brevirostris
Crypturellus brevirostris#Translingual


Bartlett's tinamou

Bartlett's tinamou (plural Bartlett's tinamous)

Crypturellus bartletti
Crypturellus bartletti#Translingual


small-billed tinamou

small-billed tinamou (plural small-billed tinamous)

Crypturellus parvirostris
Crypturellus parvirostris#Translingual


barred tinamou

Crypturellus casiquiare
Crypturellus casiquiare#Translingual


Tataupa tinamou

Tataupa tinamou (plural Tataupa tinamous)

Crypturellus tataupa
Crypturellus tataupa#Translingual


red-winged tinamou

red-winged tinamou (plural red-winged tinamous)

Rhynchotus rufescens
Rhynchotus rufescens#Translingual


Huayco tinamou

Rhynchotus maculicollis
Rhynchotus maculicollis#Translingual


Taczanowski's tinamou

Taczanowski's tinamou (plural Taczanowski's tinamous)

Nothoprocta taczanowskii
Nothoprocta taczanowskii#Translingual

Taczanowski's Tinamou
Władysław Taczanowski


ornate tinamou

Nothoprocta ornata
Nothoprocta ornata#Translingual


Chilean tinamou

Chilean tinamou (plural Chilean tinamous)

Nothoprocta perdicaria
Nothoprocta perdicaria#Translingual


brushland tinamou

brushland tinamou (plural brushland tinamous)

Nothoprocta cinerascens
Nothoprocta cinerascens#Translingual


Andean tinamou

Nothoprocta pentlandii
Nothoprocta pentlandii#Translingual


curve-billed tinamou

curve-billed tinamou (plural curve-billed tinamous)

Nothoprocta curvirostris
Nothoprocta curvirostris#Translingual


white-bellied nothura

white-bellied nothura (plural white-bellied nothuras)

Nothura boraquira
Nothura boraquira#Translingual


lesser nothura

Nothura minor
Nothura minor#Translingual


Darwin's nothura

Darwin's nothura (plural Darwin's nothuras)

Named for Charles Darwin, with the genus name Nothura.

Nothura darwinii
Nothura darwinii#Translingual


spotted nothura

spotted nothura (plural spotted nothuras)

Nothura maculosa
Nothura maculosa#Translingual


Chaco nothura

Nothura chacoensis
Nothura chacoensis#Translingual


dwarf tinamou

Taoniscus nanus
Taoniscus nanus#Translingual

A tinamou, Taoniscus nanus, also known as the least tinamou.


elegant crested tinamou

elegant crested tinamou (plural elegant crested tinamous)

Eudromia elegans
Eudromia elegans#Translingual


Quebracho crested tinamou

Quebracho crested tinamou (plural Quebracho crested tinamous)

Eudromia formosa
Eudromia formosa#Translingual


puna tinamou

Tinamotis pentlandii
Tinamotis pentlandii#Translingual

A tinamou of species Tinamotis pentlandii.


Patagonian tinamou

Patagonian tinamou (plural Patagonian tinamous)

Tinamotis ingoufi
Tinamotis ingoufi#Translingual


ynambu

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese inambu, inhambu, from Tupian inambú.

Rhynchotus rufescens
Rhynchotus rufescens#Translingual

A bird of South America, Rhynchotus rufescens, the red-winged tinamou.


nothura

Any member of the genus Nothura of birds in the tinamou family.


elephant bird

elephant birds (plural)
elephantbird (alternative)

Apparently from Marco Polo's description of the legendary roc as being capable of seizing a small elephant.

The fossil record is also poor for moa and the aepyornid elephant birds, in that both are mainly known from remains that date from historical times.

2002, Gregory S. Paul, Dinosaurs of the Air: The Evolution and Loss of Flight in Dinosaurs and Birds, page 306:

Another very notable feature of Madagascar was the elephant bird (Aepyornis maximus), an enormous relative of the ostrich which reached 3 m in height.

2009, Jonathan Adams, Species Richness: Patterns in the Diversity of Life, page 242:

All^([of order Struthioniformes]) except tinamous are flightless; they include the largest birds ever known (moas and elephant birds) and the largest living bird (Ostrich).

2013, Roger Safford, Frank Hawkins, The Birds of Africa, volume VIII, The Malagasy Region, page 107:

Any of the very large extinct flightless birds that make up the genera Aepyornis and Mullerornis within family Aepyornithidae, and lived in Madagascar until the 17th or 18th century; especially †Aepyornis maximus.


mooruk

Casuarius bennetti
Casuarius bennetti#Translingual

The dwarf cassowary (Casuarius bennetti) found in New Britain, New Guinea, and Yapen Island. It is noted for its agility. It is smaller and has stouter legs than the common cassowary.


tataupa

Psophia and palamedea species also aid in feeding these Indians, as likewise tataupas, ypacahas, yahamis, mbatuitis, and chloritos forms. They eat nearly every feathered creature, however, from a gull upward, deriving great advantages ...

1901, “United States of Brazil: A geographical sketch”, in Bureau of the American Republics, Washington, D.C., page 52:

In the case of the Tataupas bred in 1904, no less than fourteen young birds were reared in the one season from a single female and two males. When male No. 1 commenced to incubate his batch of four pink eggs, the female was transferred ...

1921, The Avicultural Magazine, page 89:

Crypturellus tataupa
Crypturellus tataupa#Translingual

A South American tinamou (Crypturellus tataupa).


kivikivi

Imitative of its notes. From a Polynesian language.

Apteryx australis
Apteryx australis#Translingual

(dated) Any species of Apteryx, especially Apteryx australis.


aepyornithid

(zoology) Any member of the Aepyornithidae.


apterygid

(zoology) Any member of the Apterygidae.


casuariid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Casuariidae, the cassowaries and emus.


dinornithid

(zoology) Any extinct giant flightless bird in the family Dinornithidae; a moa.


dromaiid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Dromaiidae; an emu.


rheid

(zoology) Any member of the Rheidae; a rhea.


rheid

Coined by S. Warren Carey in 1953; related to rheology.

(geology) A substance whose temperature is below the melting point and whose deformation by viscous flow during the time of observation is at least three orders of magnitude (1,000 ×) greater than the elastic deformation under the given conditions.


struthionid

(zoology) Any member of the Struthionidae; an ostrich.


tinamid

(zoology) Any member of the avian family Tinamidae of tinamous.


American ostrich

American ostrich (plural American ostriches)

Rhea americana
Rhea americana#Translingual


Tasmanian emu

The were followed into oblivion by their neighbours the Tasmanian emus (diemenensis) some fifty years later.

2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 33:

An extinct subspecies of the emu, Dromaius novaehollandiae diemenensis, once endemic to Tasmania, where it had become isolated during the Late Pleistocene.


southern cassowary

southern cassowary (plural southern cassowaries)

Casuarius casuarius
Casuarius casuarius#Translingual

A large flightless black bird, Casuarius casuarius.


Kangaroo Island emu

Kangaroo Island emu (plural Kangaroo Island emus)

An extinct subspecies of emu (†Dromaius novaehollandiae baudinianus).


dwarf emu

Kangaroo Island emu
Kangaroo Island emu#English


little bush moa

little bush moa (plural little bush moas)

An extinct species of moa, Anomalopteryx didiformis.


heavy-footed moa

heavy-footed moa (plural heavy-footed moas)

A large extinct species of moa, Pachyornis elephantopus.


upland moa

The relatively small upland moa had the most wide-ranging taste; its coprolites show that it consumed a diversity of mosses, ferns, and fungi, as well as aquatic plants.

A large extinct species of moa, Megalapteryx didinus.


South Island giant moa

South Island giant moa (plural South Island giant moas)

The presence of these foods show how the upland moa was able to co-exist with the much larger South Island giant moa, by feeding on relatively inaccessible plants.

An extinct species of moa, Dinornis robustus, which may have grown up to 3.6 metres tall.


Arabian ostrich

Arabian ostrich (plural Arabian ostriches)

Distinguished by its comparatively small size, the apparently extinct Arabian ostrich was fairly common until the time of World War I but as firearms became more plentiful in Arabia and it became possible to pursue birds in automobiles, numbers rapidly declined.

2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 32:

(now historical) An extinct subspecies of ostrich, †Struthio camelus syriacus, that lived on the Arabian Peninsula.


slender moa

A clue to the appearance of the slender moa may be provided by deep pits on the tops of some skulls, perhaps an indication that one of the sexes carried a crest.

2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 41:

North Island giant moa
North Island giant moa

(now historical) A formerly posited species of giant moa, now considered to be synonymous with the North Island giant moa, Dinornis novaezealandiae.


dinornithiform

Any extinct moa of the order Dinornithiformes


greater rhea

Rhea americana, a species of flightless bird native to eastern South America.


lesser rhea

A species of large flightless bird, Rhea pennata, found in South America.


Somali ostrich

Somali ostrich (plural Somali ostriches)

Struthio molybdophanes
Struthio molybdophanes#Translingual

Struthio molybdophanes, a large flightless bird native to the Horn of Africa, previously considered to be a subspecies of the common ostrich.


dwarf cassowary

dwarf cassowary (plural dwarf cassowaries)

Casuarius bennetti, the smallest of the three extant species of cassowaries.


South African ostrich

South African ostrich (plural South African ostriches)

Struthio camelus australis, a subspecies of the common ostrich endemic to South Africa, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Angola, and Botswana.