noun
- small birds that feed on rice crops, especially the bobolink during migration
Examples
- Farmers in the South complained about ricebirds destroying their crops.
- The ricebirds arrived in large flocks during the fall migration.
- Hunters would wait in the rice fields for the ricebirds to land.
- The bobolinks were commonly called ricebirds when they fed in the grain fields.
- Ricebirds were considered both a pest and a delicacy in the 19th century.