Bible Dictionaries
Deathbird

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) Tengmalm's or Richardson's owl (Nyctale Tengmalmi); - so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Deathbird'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​d/deathbird.html. 1828.