"night bird" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 39:",
          "text": "Some night-bird, belike, or a sea-gull squalling below the headland.",
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          "ref": "2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 290:",
          "text": "Far out in the scrubs a solitary nightbird was calling.",
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        "A bird that is active in the night; a nocturnal bird."
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          "ref": "1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Bradley assenting, went with him into an early public-house, haunted by unsavoury smells of musty hay and stale straw, where returning carts, farmers' men, gaunt dogs, fowls of a beery breed, and certain human night-birds fluttering home to roost, were solacing themselves after their several manners; and where not one of the night-birds hovering about the sloppy bar failed to discern at a glance in the passion-wasted night-bird with respectable feathers, the worst night-bird of all.",
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        "A human denizen of night."
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          "text": "Some night-bird, belike, or a sea-gull squalling below the headland.",
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