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Parrots and trogons, and tanagers flashed around our heads; and the great-billed and silly-looking toucans sat silent in the branches above.
The Rifle Rangers Mayne Reid 1850
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Protected species like great-billed herons and Malaysian plovers nest on the island, and endangered Chinese white dolphins have been spotted offshore.
NYT > Home Page By LINDSEY HOSHAW 2011
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Protected species like great-billed herons and Malaysian plovers nest on the island, and endangered Chinese white dolphins have been spotted offshore.
NYT > Home Page By LINDSEY HOSHAW 2011
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The great-billed heron doesn't figure high on IUCN's Red List of Threatened Species.
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At this time of day, when no one else was on the river, we were free to go wherever Muzza pleased, and we spotted or at least the others did, as I was happy enough closing my eyes and listening to the different noises three kinds of kingfishers and a great-billed heron, as well as a python, a green tree snake and a couple of freshies only a couple, as it was still too early for them to come out and get warm in the sun.
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At this time of day, when no one else was on the river, we were free to go wherever Muzza pleased, and we spotted or at least the others did, as I was happy enough closing my eyes and listening to the different noises three kinds of kingfishers and a great-billed heron, as well as a python, a green tree snake and a couple of freshies only a couple, as it was still too early for them to come out and get warm in the sun.
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