birdman

noun3

1. •
   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. — 1981
2. •
   A man who works with birds.
3. •
   (informal) An aviator.