The rat-a-tat-tat of the brown sicklebill could be likened to machine-gun fire. |
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I have just returned from 10 days in Panama where my favorite birds were White-tipped sicklebill, Rufous-crested coquette, and Brown-billed scythebill. |
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In New Guinea, mountain hunters target the black sicklebill and birds of paradise, which are prized both for their showy feathers and as food. |
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Corolla curvature in Centropogon was found to be relatively labile and reversed to comparative straightness where no pollinating sicklebill hummingbirds were available. |
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