Large long-legged African bird of prey that feeds on reptiles.
1 The secretary bird stands over 4 ft. tall on long, crane-like legs.
2 He was with that sailor-looking man measuring the height of the secretary bird .
3 Eh, not really for me, says the secretary bird .
4 The snake-hunting secretary bird of Africa, or the cassowary.
5 On the top is a secretary bird , the national bird in the South African coat of arms.
6 So can the secretary bird kick it?
8 Here, for the first time, I saw the secretary bird , known to the Arabs as the "Devil's horse."
9 Unfortunately the secretary bird , which had a particularly long neck, stuck it into the hyena den, and that was the end of it.
10 Unlike most birds of prey that swoop down from the air to make a kill, the secretary bird hunts its quarry mostly on foot.
11 Here they saw large numbers of secretary birds and bustards and maramots and springbok antelope.
12 What was that weird stuff the Secretary Bird spouted when you showed Phillis to him, Kit?
13 Pearly mountains and deep blue sky, and an impassable pass to walk down, and baboons, and secretary birds , and tortoises!
14 "I shall be nice to the Secretary Bird now."
15 'Oh, what is a secretary bird ? '
16 'Suppose, for example, that a great flight of secretary birds had arrived, they might have cleared the island of rattlesnakes.'
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