telik noun English. Large, ca/ 40 cm beak to tail, black, long-necked, fish-catching bird that lives near the shore of freshwater. Example sentence: Subanen. Ki telik, ginis manukmanuk, maitem, ma'niin palas guak, laak megbenwa dig baba' tubig, mengaan seda'. English. A fisher bird is a kind of bird, black like a crow, but it stays in the shallow water, and eats fish. Generic. manukmanuk