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Definition of Thornbills

Thornbill
Thornbill Thorn"bill`, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of small, brilliantly colored American birds of the genus Rhamphomicron. They have a long, slender, sharp bill, and feed upon honey, insects, and the juice of the sugar cane.

Meaning of Thornbills from wikipedia

- Thornbill can refer to: Acanthiza, a genus of Australian p****erine birds. Two genera of hummingbirds, Chalcostigma and Ramphomicron This disambiguation...
- Australia, the New Guinea thornbill (Acanthiza murina), also bears close molecular similarities to both the yellow and striated thornbills. Although similar to...
- inland thornbill (Acanthiza apicalis) was originally described by English ornithologist John Gould in The Birds of Australia. Inland thornbills are within...
- groups with other thornbills, except during the breeding season. It also forms mixed-species feeding flocks with the yellow-rumped thornbill (Acanthiza chrysorrhoa)...
- coloration or size differentiation between ****es. The Tasmanian and Brown Thornbills both occupy similar habitat, and are strikingly similar in appearance...
- Buff-rumped Thornbill. Retrieved 10 October 2023 from Buff-rumped Thornbill. Nicholls J. (2001). Molecular systematics of the thornbills, Acanthiza. Emu...
- other thornbills having a rufous-brown rump patch such as brown thornbill (A. pusilla), inland thornbill (A. apicalis) and slaty-backed thornbills (A. robustirostris)...
- The bronze-tailed thornbill (Chalcostigma heteropogon) is a species of hummingbird in the "coquettes", tribe Lesbiini of subfamily Lesbiinae. It is found...
- as thornbills. They are not closely related to species in the hummingbird genera Chalcostigma and Ramphomicron, which are also called thornbills. They...
- the yellow-rumped thornbill was an early offshoot within the thornbill genus, its ancestor diverging from that of all other thornbills just over 10 million...