A person who catches mutton birds for food or prepares their carcasses for sale.
he worked as a seasonal muttonbirder on Stewart Island
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An experienced muttonbirder can locate, snatch, and bag the occupant of a burrow every 5–6 minutes and might net a cool thirty thousand dollars in thirty days of hunting.
My son's a good mutton-birder, but I couldn't get him over this year.
Many of the cuzzie-bros of these hungry kids are bound to be mutton birders, oyster dredgers, and fishing folk.
The mutton-birder determines that a chick rests within by using an arm or a wire to poke around.
It has been in the interest of the mutton-birder not to disturb the habitat of the mutton-bird.
He is also a lifelong muttonbirder.
The mutton-birder not infrequently pulls out a likewise startled snake.
She has been a muttonbirder since she was four and has missed very few seasons on Ernest Island.
On one of the last few days of the hunt, luck ran out for the mutton-birder.
The kids are going on about their dad's fame as a muttonbirder.