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An effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds.

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        1
        His head is swiveling like a bird-scarer, taking in my twelve square meters of squalor.
        The Rhesus Chart
        2
        They haunted newly-sown fields and would rise, all right, at a shout from a bird-scarer, but were difficult to shoot.
        The Irish Times
        3
        Visiting Salisbury Museum, I found myself eyeballing the last great bustard in Victorian England, shot down by a bird-scarer with a marble in 1871.
        The Guardian
        4
        "'Bird-scarer,'" said the C.S.M.
        Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, Jan. 8, 1919