The shape of the bill varies greatly within the order, in accordance with special feeding methods.
The sort of nest that a bird builds or the song that it sings can count as phenotypic traits just as much as the shape of its bill.
But I don't agree with those who think the shape of this bill would have been materially different.
In short order, a credible rival has emerged in the gangling shape of Bill Bradley (see article), and the party's nagging doubts about Mr Gore have been given voice by Bill Clinton himself.
Before you laugh, you should know that Rector's views on the deadbeat poor had considerable influence on the shape of Bill Clinton's welfare reform, and that his earlier version of the costs-of-amnesty study helped kill immigration reform last time around.
In fact, the three species of the genus Rhinopomastus are often called scimitarbills, or scimitar-billed hoopoes, from the shape of their bills, which are adapted to probing for insects in crevices or under bark.
However, because of the unusual shape of raptor bills (with the curved maxilla extending far below the lower mandible) we defined two separate measurements to model the bill in the coordinate system.
The exact shape of their bills varies among populations and species in both North America and Europe.
Newspaper Guild called on the managing editor of the Times with several minor grievances one of them that the mimeographer in the syndicate dept., was constantly splattered with ink, in the line of duty; this subjected the mimeographer to personal expense, in the shape of cleaners bills.
Battles over the strength and shape of the Lokpal bill ended in January 2012, when the bill reached the upper house of Parliament but was tabled for the year amid an ugly political spectacle.
The collective hopes that its various worries and doubts about the government's ability to adequately monitor the mining sector will prompt the World Bank's Inspection Panel to investigate violations of policy in the shaping of the bill.
