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ramphotheca

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  • MaryW commented on the word ramphotheca

    one of my most prized possessions was the skull of a woodcock, a probing bird, with enormous eye sockets and a distinctively pitted bill tip. These pits can be seen only after the leathery outer covering of the bill—the ramphotheca—has been removed.
    Tim Birkhead, Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird (New York: Walker & Co., 2012), p. 83-84.

    May 30, 2016