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- noun Plural form of
broadbill .
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Examples
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Wallace mentioned six families of birds the woodpeckers, the trogons, the hornbills, the broadbills, the puffbirds, the bee-eaters that were abundant throughout Java, Borneo, Celebes, the whole western end of the archipelago, but missing from Aru.
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Wallace mentioned six families of birds the woodpeckers, the trogons, the hornbills, the broadbills, the puffbirds, the bee-eaters that were abundant throughout Java, Borneo, Celebes, the whole western end of the archipelago, but missing from Aru.
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He found no barbets, no trogons, no broadbills, no shrikes.
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He found no barbets, no trogons, no broadbills, no shrikes.
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In the two following cases (39, 40) are grouped the varieties of the tody and broadbills, from the West Indies, and Brazil; and the curncuis from the southern parts of Asia and America.
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Gaspeny has caught 147 broadbills himself; during a two-day in June 2007, the Bud N '
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Anglers who bring in a swordfish with Richard Stanczyk can commission Gibbons to paint scenes on broadbills, the process of which had a learning curve.
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Squid, arguably the favorite food of broadbills, have the ability to flash phosphorescent light to signal to each other in the inky blackness.
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It was Dr. Ruben Jaen's claim that broadbills could be caught just as well in the daytime as at night and Jaen, a respected trustee of the International Game Fish Association, had plenty of catch statistics to back him up.
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As many have proved to their satisfaction, what works off Islamorada will work anywhere there is deep water and broadbills.
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