spadebill

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English

Noun

spadebill (plural spadebills)

  1. Any of the birds in the genus Platyrinchus
    • 2021 January 3, “Secret birds of Tobago”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday:
      Birds which tend to stick to the canopy are seldom seen without considerable neck pain; but there are several species which occupy a niche close to the forest floor and are just as infrequently encountered, such as the diminutive white-throated spadebill.

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