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- noun Plural form of
sheathbill .
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Examples
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Amongst the penguins, too, were to be seen numbers of little sheathbills -- just like small bantams, similar to the specimen Frank
The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land 1887
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Spurs and blades on the wings of jacanas, lapwings, sheathbills and archaeotrogonids (clubs, spurs, spikes and claws part II)
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Spurs and blades on the wings of jacanas, lapwings, sheathbills and archaeotrogonids (clubs, spurs, spikes and claws part II) « Getting scansoriopterygids, terrestrial-stalking azhdarchids, sauropod pneumaticity and the word
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Plovers, jacanas, sheathbills, giant pigeons and ibises to follow.
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