[rec.birds] eating feathers

wvenable@spam.ua.oz.au (Bill Venables) (01/10/91)

In article <1789@cluster.cs.su.oz.au> andrewt@cs.su.oz (Andrew Taylor) writes:
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>   While I'm being irrelevant, can anyone know a living bird species where the
>   sexes have different-shaped bills. I have a reference that says several
>   birds do but only mentions the extinct New Zealand Huia.

In Eclectus parrots the sexes have different *coloured* bills.  Is that
irrelevant enough for you, Andrew? :-)

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