- Curved-bill birds - Large wading birds - Sacred Egyptian birds - Sacred Nile birds - Some businesses I bill for returning birds - Tropical waders - Venerated ancient Egyptian birds
- Any one of three species of humming birds of the genus
Eutoxeres, native of Central and South America. They have a long and
strongly curved bill. Called also the sickle-billed hummer. - A curlew. - A bird of the genus Epimachus and allied genera.
- of Accipiter - The order that includes rapacious birds. They have
a hooked bill, and sharp, strongly curved talons. There are three
families, represented by the vultures, the falcons or hawks, and the
owls.
- A bird of the Crow family (Fregilus graculus) of Europe. It
is of a black color, with a long, slender, curved bill and red legs; --
also called chauk, chauk-daw, chocard, Cornish chough, red-legged crow.
The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the Alpine chough.
- Bird of prey - Butcherbird - Curved-bill bird - Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the
family Laniidae, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip. Most
shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European gray shrike (Lanius
excubitor), the great northern shrike (L. borealis), and several
others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns,
and are, on that account called also butcher birds. See under Butcher.