Definitions
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- adjective having a thick beak
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Examples
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Dainty black-legged kittiwakes and glaucous gulls flew in swirling clouds overhead while black-and-white thick-billed and common murres skimmed low across the water, looking like tuxedo-clad squadrons on maneuvers.
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Dainty black-legged kittiwakes and glaucous gulls flew in swirling clouds overhead while black-and-white thick-billed and common murres skimmed low across the water, looking like tuxedo-clad squadrons on maneuvers.
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As the last parrot species native to the United States, thick-billed parrots are endangered.
ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010
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As the last parrot species native to the United States, thick-billed parrots are endangered.
ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010
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As the last parrot species native to the United States, thick-billed parrots are endangered.
ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010
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As the last parrot species native to the United States, thick-billed parrots are endangered.
ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010
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Differential responses of common and thick-billed murres to a crash in the capelin stock in the southern Barents Sea.
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For example, the CAFF Circumpolar Seabird Working Group recently produced the International Murre Conservation Strategy and Action Plan [5] that identifies management issues related to common (Uria aalge) and thick-billed (U. lomvia) murres, which experienced significant declines in several circumpolar countries throughout the twentieth century.
Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic 2009
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For example, the number of thick-billed murre breeding colonies has been reduced from 48 to 23 during the last 30 years on the west coast of Greenland [53].
Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic 2009
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Hydrographic features, cetaceans and the foraging of thick-billed murres and other marine birds in the northwestern Barents Sea.
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