strange bird

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A new fossil, named "Attenborough's strange bird" after naturalist and documentarian Sir David Attenborough, is the first of its kind to evolve a toothless beak.

From Science Daily • Mar. 5, 2024

If you’re settled after watching that, you are one strange bird.

From Slate • Jul. 26, 2023

He was a very, very strange bird in Helsinki cultural life.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2023

It rose like the elongated neck of a strange bird, and when needed, switched tracks and rolled under the stage, popping up from a hole amid Art Deco set designs and 300,000 Swarovski crystals.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2017

Except for the odd ones about television and bravery, they had seemed easy, but perhaps he was such a strange bird that he had misunderstood everything.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart