A bird that frequents cornfields, particularly species that feed on corn kernels like crows, blackbirds, or bobolinks.
Compound of corn + bird, from Old English fugel. The term emerged from agricultural observation of birds that damaged corn crops.
Farmers had a constant arms race with cornbirds for thousands of years—hence scarecrows were born from pure agricultural desperation, a technology older than written language!
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