A: Probing bill of the snipe. B: Tearing beak of a bird of prey. C: Crushing bill of the hawfinch. D: Sifting beak of a spoonbill. E: Spearing dagger-like bill of a heron. F: The crossbill — for extracting pine cone seeds. G: Prising, striking bill of an oystercatcher. H: Probing’bill of a wader. I: Surface-feeding bill of an avocet. J: Crushing-cutting bill of a parrot K: Bill and lamallae of a prion for straining or sieving. L: Sideways curved bill of the wrybill plover. Examples of most of the bill-types featured in this illustration are on display in the Bird Hall at Canterbury Museum.
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Press, 25 July 1986, Page 18
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104A: Probing bill of the snipe. B: Tearing beak of a bird of prey. C: Crushing bill of the hawfinch. D: Sifting beak of a spoonbill. E: Spearing dagger-like bill of a heron. F: The crossbill — for extracting pine cone seeds. G: Prising, striking bill of an oystercatcher. H: Probing’bill of a wader. I: Surface-feeding bill of an avocet. J: Crushing-cutting bill of a parrot K: Bill and lamallae of a prion for straining or sieving. L: Sideways curved bill of the wrybill plover. Examples of most of the bill-types featured in this illustration are on display in the Bird Hall at Canterbury Museum. Press, 25 July 1986, Page 18
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