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In some senses, birdman is marked as informal. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
A man who works with birds.
An aviator.
A mythological creature that is part man and part bird.
The ithyphallic bird-man is the climactic, ecstatic, instantaneous male principle confronting the enormous, slow, bovine, and enduring principle of the eternal feminine in her epiphany as the bison.