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variation in the
family with
regard to bill shape.
Bills may be long and
decurved, as in the
sicklebills and riflebirds, or
small and slim like the Astrapias...
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markings on the head, has an
ochre neck, and has
horns that are
clearly decurved. The
Arabian oryx was only
saved from
extinction through a captive-breeding...
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special bracing and
stringing methods or
tools such as a
bracing board. A
decurve bow is a bow that has arms
curved or
curled at the ends to turn towards...
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bundle of
strings and twisting.
These bows
could be reflexed, deflexed,
decurved, or straight. One
variety of cable-backed bow is the
Penobscot bow or Wabenaki...
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distinctive features include a
light grey line over the eye, a long
slightly decurved thin bill, a long
barred tail and dark legs. They
actively hunt on the...
- for the
scimitar babblers which, as
their name implies, have
strongly decurved bills. Most have
predominantly brown plumage, with
minimal difference between...
- monotypic: no
subspecies are recognised. The bristle-thighed
curlew has a long,
decurved bill and
bristled feathers at the base of the legs. Its
length is about...
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sometimes irregular and
eroded at maturity,
slightly incurved at first, soon
decurved,
flattening with maturity,
translucent striate and
often leaving a fibrillose...
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possessed by Hume's
ground tit of
Tibet and the Himalayas,
which is long and
decurved. The **** are a
widespread family of birds,
occurring over most of Europe...
- 1 in) and 42
grams (1.5 oz). They have strong,
stubby conical beaks with
decurved culmens and
blunter tips. All
species have
calls similar to the
house sparrow's...
