broad-billed

• “LOS ANGELES—The Gone Plaid Bandit is a white man of average height, fond of wearing broad-billed baseball caps and, of course, plaid.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Pickup in Stickups Puzzles Police

• “Pete was mucking out a stall in the back of the barn with a broad-billed coal shovel.”

  Simon & Schuster: Rain Gods

• “Sadly, they are too late to help the Mauritius giant skink — a type of large grey lizard — its broad-billed parrot, scops owl or lesser flying fox, and many other species now extinct.”

  Mauritius turns wildlife clock back 400 years

• “Millions of seabirds use the island, including storm petrels (Oceantidae), sooty shearwaters (Puffinus griseus), broad-billed prions (Pachyptila vittata), and the critically endangered Chatham petrel which breeds only on Rangatira.”

  Chatham Island temperate forests

• “Of interest is the presence of Sri Lanka broad-billed roller Eurystomus orientalis irisi (I), sightings of which have decreased markedly in the last five years.”

  Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka

• “Of the 35 species of land birds reported, the most representative are the broad-billed tody (Tordus subulatos), burrowing owl, "cucú" (Athene cunicularia), palm crow, "cao" (Corvus palmarum), and vervain hummingbird (Mellisuga minima).”

  Enriquillo wetlands

• “I saw it, too, the turn of broad-billed head, the flash of brilliant orange and white.”

  Dark Piper

• “One proved to be inhabited by the beautifully marked King penguin, while the other contained a smaller gold-crested broad-billed species ....”

  The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition

• “The long-legged, broad-billed flamingo, who is continually stalking over muddy flats in search of food, heaps up the mud into a conical stool, on the top of which it lays its eggs.”

  Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays

• “In the second case of flycatchers are grouped the true flycatchers, which are mostly from the old world; those from America being the solitary flycatcher, the black-headed flycatcher, the king and broad-billed tody, and the white-eared thrush.”

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