Sentence examples for thin bills from inspiring English sources

They have thin bills; long nostrils with a covering flap; medium, rounded wings; and weak legs and feet.

Those with thin bills and, usually, red-and-black plumage (both sexes look alike) feed on nectar; those with finchlike bills and, usually, greenish plumage (males often have orange or yellow markings) eat seeds, fruits, and insects.

Oystercatchers, stilts, dowitchers, willets, black-bellied plovers, dunlins, royal terns, ruddy turnstones, semipalmated sandpipers — along the sand and in the shallows, thousands of heads were going up and down as long, thin bills plucked up what probably were horseshoe-crab eggs.

As far as long thin bills go they don't get any more impressive than the curlew.

Murrelets are about 20 cm (8 inches) long, thin billed and, in winter, plain plumaged.

Willow warblers are small olive green birds, whitish beneath with a pale eye stripe and a thin bill for catching insects.

They are adept at snipping off the feathery thistledown to reach the tiny seed, but also at using their thin bill-tips to extract the seeds of teasel and manipulate the hooked seeds of burdock.

Named in 1903 by Alex Milligan, it is a medium-sized subspecies with a long thin bill.

It uses its long thin bill to extract insects and spiders from crevices in the bark.

The small, thin bill is black, and the legs are dark flesh-brown.

Differences with C. carduelis (goldfinch) and C. spinus (siskin) finches with thin bill, are in overall size, the morphology of the palatinum bone, and the strength of the processus zygomaticus.