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Wild word: ornithomancy

16 Wednesday May 2018

Posted by sconzani in birds, nature

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Ornithomancy: Noun; rarely used; divination by means of the flight and cries of birds; augury. From Byzantine Greek ὀρνιθομαντεία divination from birds, augury from ancient Greek ὀρνιθο- + μαντεία (Oxford Dictionary).

I predict that the person who eats fish and chips at the seaside will be attacked by gulls and is likely also to get pooped upon!

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