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  • Clearly this is still one of the most important, if not the most important factor controlling bill shape, otherwise we wouldn’t have curlews, ibises, sword-billed hummingbirds, flamingos, crossbills, or all those oystercatcher polymorphs.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Clearly this is still one of the most important, if not the most important factor controlling bill shape, otherwise we wouldn’t have curlews, ibises, sword-billed hummingbirds, flamingos, crossbills, or all those oystercatcher polymorphs.

    The war on parasites: a pigeon’s eye view Darren Naish 2006

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