banana quit

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banana quit - any of several honeycreepers

honeycreeper - small bright-colored tropical American songbird with a curved bill for sucking nectar

Coereba, genus Coereba - type genus of the Coerebidae

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Being so close to the Venezuela, Tobago has become home to a fascinating variety of birds including mesmerising humming birds and the irrepressible banana quits who steel from your sugar bowl each breakfast and, with a little patience, you can entice onto your hand for a few grains of sugar.

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Brown boobies, kingfishers, spotted sandpipers, blue-winged teal ducks, banana quits, iridescent hummingbirds, indigo buntings, pink flamingos toucans, blue and green and purple herons, tropical mockingbirds, royal terns, snowy egrets, and palm warblers are just a few of the teeming birds.