NOUN
- diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill
- freshwater duck of the northern hemisphere having a broad flat bill
- small birds of the Old World tropics having bright plumage and short wide bills
- tropical American heron related to night herons
How To Use broadbill In A Sentence
- In 1948 Heck won first place amateur with his broadbill and best diving duck, the same year in which Crisfield's Lem Ward won "Best in Show."
- The members of Eurylaiminae are variable in their plumage; the wattled broadbills have an eye ring of large blue wattles.
- Broadbills are small to medium-sized birds with a big head, a wide bill and often bright coloration (greens, reds, blues, etc.).
- Observations have been made of groups of up to twenty dusky broadbills building a single nest.
- Winter residents include large flocks of ducks, geese, and swans winter in the Sound. In West Haven, Connecticut 8,000 scaup (also called Broadbills or Bluebills) were regularly counted in the 1970s.
- Asities' closest relatives are actually pittas and broadbills (Eurylaimidae).
- The Old World has only about 50 species of suboscines, and these fall into three small groups: the outrageously colorful, short-legged, plump pittas; the broadbills; and the asities.
- Response: This is an adult silver-breasted broadbill, Serilophus lunatus. Mystery bird: silver-breasted broadbill, Serilophus lunatus
- Pittas and broadbills are found primarily in southern and southeastern Asia, but a small number of species from both groups are found in Africa, and two species of pittas have reached Australia from the north.
- Bill Chaprales throwing a harpoonlike device from the pulpit of a “stick” boat (photo), meaning one more commonly used in harpooning giant bluefin tuna or, historically, broadbill swordfish. Uncategorized Blog Posts