blue-billed

• “Species of special concern for this ecoregion are the Colombian ebony and the mahogany, among the precious timber; the Cattleya aurea, as this beautiful orchid has suffered from over-collection for more than seventy years; the two species of tapirs present are highly endangered both at the national and international level; the harpy eagle and the blue-billed curassow are also endangered species than still present in the upper Sinú.”

  Sinú Valley dry forests

• “The organization has created 15 birding reserves, like the El Paujil Reserve, where birders may be lucky to see the endangered blue-billed curassow, at left.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Guerrilla Birding

• “The blue-billed curassow Crax alberti, is extinct in the region of the upper Magdalena.”

  Magdalena Valley dry forests

• “The very first time I fired my gun I brought down one of the most curious and beautiful of the Malacca birds, the blue-billed gaper (Cymbirhynchus macrorhynchus), called by the Malays the”

  The Malay Archipelago

• “Sarah watched Else Sanchez, the robust, swarthy-faced captain who wore an old seaman's jumper and a blue-billed cap.”

  Give Us Forever

• “A halt was made here, and a hearty lunch was disposed of; after which, feeling rested and comparatively cool, they started once more, and before long the first shot was had at a blue-billed gaper, a lovely bird, with azure and golden bill, and jetty-black, white, and crimson plumage.”

  Middy and Ensign

• “Beautiful blue-billed gapers, all claret and black and white, flitted about, catching glossy metallic-looking beetles; little green chatterers, with their crested heads, flew from spray to spray; and tiny sun-birds, in their gorgeous mail of gold and bronze and purple, flew from flower to flower in search of honey.”

  Middy and Ensign

• “This pretty dark bird with the black and white and crimson plumage is the rain-bird -- the blue-billed gaper; and this softly-feathered fellow with the bristles at the side of his bill is a trogon.”

  Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas

• “That blue-billed gaper probably came from Malacca, and the trogon too.”

  Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas

• “The very first time I fired my gun I brought down one of the most curious and beautiful of the Malacca birds, the blue-billed gaper”

  The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1

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