broad-billed

LOS ANGELES—The Gone Plaid Bandit is a white man of average height, fond of wearing broad-billed baseball caps and, of course, plaid.

A Pickup in Stickups Puzzles Police Tamara Audi 2012

Sadly, they are too late to help the Mauritius giant skink — a type of large grey lizard — its broad-billed parrot, scops owl or lesser flying fox, and many other species now extinct.

Mauritius turns wildlife clock back 400 years 2007

Pete was mucking out a stall in the back of the barn with a broad-billed coal shovel.

Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

Pete was mucking out a stall in the back of the barn with a broad-billed coal shovel.

Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

Pete was mucking out a stall in the back of the barn with a broad-billed coal shovel.

Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

Of the 35 species of land birds reported, the most representative are the broad-billed tody (Tordus subulatos), burrowing owl, "cucú" (Athene cunicularia), palm crow, "cao" (Corvus palmarum), and vervain hummingbird (Mellisuga minima).

Enriquillo wetlands 2008

Millions of seabirds use the island, including storm petrels (Oceantidae), sooty shearwaters (Puffinus griseus), broad-billed prions (Pachyptila vittata), and the critically endangered Chatham petrel which breeds only on Rangatira.

Chatham Island temperate forests 2008

Of interest is the presence of Sri Lanka broad-billed roller Eurystomus orientalis irisi (I), sightings of which have decreased markedly in the last five years.

Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka 2008

I saw it, too, the turn of broad-billed head, the flash of brilliant orange and white.

Dark Piper Norton, Andre 1968

One proved to be inhabited by the beautifully marked King penguin, while the other contained a smaller gold-crested broad-billed species ....

The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition Charles Turley 1904