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sunbird
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sun·bird  (snbûrd)
n.
Any of various small tropical Old World passerine birds of the family Nectariniidae, having a slender downward-curving bill and often brightly colored plumage in the male.
sunbird [ˈsʌnˌbɜːd]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any small songbird of the family Nectariniidae, of tropical regions of the Old World, esp Africa, having a long slender curved bill and a bright plumage in the males
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At the same time, the little spiderhunter, for one, is significant almost entirely in terms of direction of flight and thus has to be identified as a distinct species by sighting (consequently, being thus known by sight, sasat is also recognized as being the particular species making the little spiderhunter calls--though ironically the call of augural relevance does not seem to be the one from which the Dusun name of the bird is derived onomatopoeically).
Messengers or tipsters? Some cautious though concluding thoughts on ... by Kershaw, Maria Eva; Kershaw, Roger / Borneo Research Bulletin
2000 Biogeography of Avifauna and Patterns of Variation in Little Spiderhunter (Arachnothera longirostra) in Southeast Asia.
After the Sarawak Law: evolutionary biology in Borneo since 1855 by Schilthuizen, Menno / Borneo Research Bulletin
The records of Copper-throated Sunbird Nectarinia calcostetha and Red-throated Sunbird Anthreptes rhodolaema (Dennis 1994), both isolated records from atypical habitat, and those of Yellow-eared Spiderhunter Arachnothera chrysogenys need confirmation.
Birds of the Danau Sentarum National Park by Dennis, Roy H. / Borneo Research Bulletin
 
 
 
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