A bird, typically a bobolink or similar songbird, that frequents hay fields or meadows during breeding season.
Compound of 'hay' (dried grass) and 'bird,' used in American colonial farming dialect to describe birds associated with agricultural fields.
Bobolinks are incredible migrants that fly 12,000 miles between North and South America—yet farmers called them just 'haybirds,' missing that these were globe-trotting athletes!
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