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Spinebill

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Spine´bill`
n.1.(Zool.) Any species of Australian birds of the genus Acanthorhynchus. They are related to the honey eaters.
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Crimson Rosellas and color-saturated Australian King Parrots mingle with the Lewin's Honeyeaters, Eastern Spinebills, Superb Blue Wrens, Golden Whistlers and Welcome Swallows around the settlement.
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If you look at, for example, the length of the tube of the blossoms of correas or kangaroo paws in Western Australia, that curve matches exactly the length and curve of the bills of western spinebills.
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