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  • noun Plural form of broadbill.

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Examples

  • 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.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • 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.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • He found no barbets, no trogons, no broadbills, no shrikes.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • He found no barbets, no trogons, no broadbills, no shrikes.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • 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.

    How to See the British Museum in Four Visits W. Blanchard Jerrold 1855

  • 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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