Tropical American heron related to night herons.
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Examples for "boatbill"
Examples for "boatbill"
1Bonaparte regards it as intermediate between the pelican and the boatbill.
2An osteological examination leads Parker to place the balæniceps near the boatbill, and the present classification is based upon that opinion.
3If we listen to Reinhurdt, we must place it, not alongside of the boatbill, but alongside of the African genus Scopus.
1It could have been a marlin or a broadbill or a shark.
2That would not have mattered if I had not hurt my back in an eleven-hour fight with a giant broadbill swordfish.