broadbills in English
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1
a small bird of the Old World tropics, with a stocky body, a large head, a flattened bill with a wide gape, and typically very colorful plumage.
I am not up to speed on the identification of antpittas, Eurasian emberizids and finches, or broadbills .
2
a bird with a broad bill, especially a duck like the shoveler or the scaup.
The hunters, dressed in camouflage in floating duck blinds offshore, take aim at the broadbills , black ducks and mallards that are the prized bounty of these waters.
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1. The Calyptomenidae, a family of birds known as the African and green Broadbills Broadbill may also refer to: Broadbills, a common alternate name for monarch flycatchers in the genus Myiagra An alternate name for the lesser scaup, a North American duck
2. Broadbills are chunky birds, 12.5 to 28 cm (5 to 11 inches) long, with a short, wide bill having bristles or wattles at the base