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a swamp-strutting bird the Egyptians worshipped and Australians turned into a garbage gremlin
means A long-legged wading bird with a slender, downward-curving bill, found near water across the world's warmer regions.
from From Latin 'ibis,' borrowed from Greek 'ibis,' which the Greeks in turn took from ancient Egyptian — the bird was sacred to Thoth, the ibis-headed god of writing and wisdom, and was mummified by the thousand. So the name has flown almost unchanged from the Nile, through Athens and Rome, all the way to the bin chickens of Sydney.
- egyptian god
- Thoth, god of wisdom, wore an ibis head
- bin chicken
- Aussies nicknamed it for raiding trash cans
- mummified
- millions entombed as offerings to Thoth
- battle bird
- sacred ibis allegedly devoured invading desert serpents
- storm sense
- last to seek shelter, first to reappear after
sacred ibis — venerated in ancient egypt, mummified by thousands and buried in the ibis galleries at tuna el-gebel
australian white ibis — urban scavenger found throughout sydney and eastern australian cities since the 1970s
scarlet ibis — national bird of trinidad and tobago, nests in massive colonies in the caroni swamp