Usually means: Colorful bird with elaborate courtship.
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  1. riflebird: Merriam-Webster
  2. riflebird: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. riflebird: Collins English Dictionary
  4. riflebird: Vocabulary.com
  5. riflebird: Wordnik
  6. riflebird: Wiktionary
  7. Riflebird, riflebird: Dictionary.com
  8. Riflebird: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Riflebird: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. riflebird: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. riflebird: Rhymezone
  12. Riflebird: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. riflebird: FreeDictionary.org
  14. riflebird: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. riflebird: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (riflebird)

▸ noun:  Any of four species of birds of paradise in the genus Ptiloris.

Similar:
ptloris paradisea, bird of paradise, plumebird, bird-of-paradise, paradisaeid, parrotbill, ricebird, paradigalla, parotia, reedbird, more...

Types:
cuckoo-shrike, currawong, magpie-lark, laughing kookaburra, more...

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Similar:
ptloris paradisea, bird of paradise, plumebird, bird-of-paradise, paradisaeid, parrotbill, ricebird, paradigalla, parotia, reedbird, more...

Types:
cuckoo-shrike, currawong, magpie-lark, laughing kookaburra, more...



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