firehawks

Noun

firehawk (plural firehawks)

1. The black kite, particularly in the context of its spreading of wildfires.
   • ... firehawks would “manage” the fire by redirecting it to where they wanted it to go. Firehawks use fire simply because it's a very effective tool – Bob Gosford says the fires kick off “a feeding frenzy, because out of these grasslands[…]"2018 October 30, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, Vital Science, Macmillan Publishers Aus., →ISBN, page 268