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Definition of Sicklebills

Sicklebill
Sicklebill Sic"kle*bill`, n. (Zo["o]l.) (a) Any one of three species of humming birds of the genus Eutoxeres, native of Central and South America. They have a long and strongly curved bill. Called also the sickle-billed hummer. (b) A curlew. (c) A bird of the genus Epimachus and allied genera.

Meaning of Sicklebills from wikipedia

- silver, slightly downcurved bill (not as downcurved as Drepanornis sicklebills), a bright yellow mouth, and scarlet-red eyes which are surrounded by...
- Drepanornis sicklebills, Semioptera, Ptiloris, and Lophorina, although some of these are questionable. The fourth clade includes the Epimachus sicklebills, Paradigalla...
- Sicklebill can refer to: Drepanornis, a genus of birds of paradise. Epimachus, a genus of birds of paradise. Eutoxeres, a genus of hummingbirds. This disambiguation...
- the closely related and larger black sicklebill. In areas where these two large sicklebills met, the brown sicklebill replaced the latter species in higher...
- and the same English name, the Drepanornis sicklebills are only distantly related to the Epimachus sicklebills. In fact, they are more closely allied with...
- particular area. Sicklebills also feed on insects by gleaning them from spiderwebs or trunks and branches. Male white-tipped sicklebills display for females...
- commemorates Antonie Augustus Bruijn, a Dutch plume merchant. Pale-billed sicklebills are on the more medium-sized side of the family Paradisaeidae; they seldom...
- The astrapian sicklebill, also known as the green-breasted riflebird, is a bird in the Paradisaeidae family that was proposed by Erwin Stresemann to be...
- from New Guinea, is also sometimes called "buff-tailed sicklebill". The buff-tailed sicklebill (Eutoxeres condamini) is a species of hermit hummingbird...
- often referred to as "long-tailed" sicklebills, when describing them collectively as a genus. The other sicklebills, genus Drepanornis, are referred to...