tooth-billed

Other modern representatives include the crowned pigeons of New Guinea and the tooth-billed pigeon of Samoa.

Extinct Dodo Related to Pigeons 2007

Large islands in Samoa support up to 6 species of fruit-eating pigeons including the Samoan tooth-billed pigeon (Didunculus strigirostris), a monotypic genus endemic to the islands.

Samoan tropical moist forests 2008

These include northern logrunner or chowchilla Orthonyx spaldingii, little treecreeper Climacteris minor, Atherton scrubwren Sericornis keri, Australian fernwren Crateroscelis gutturalis, mountain thornbill Acanthiza katherina, bridled honeyeater Lichenostomus frenatus, Bower's shrike-thrush Colluricincla megarhyncha, tooth-billed catbird Ailuroedus dentirostris and golden bowerbird Prionodura newtoniana.

Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site, Australia 2008

Samoa has the tooth-billed pigeon and the white-throated pigeon.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Samoa has the tooth-billed pigeon and the white-throated pigeon.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

I have read somewhere that the dodo and a relative of his called the 'tooth-billed pigeon' are still to be found on this island.

The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez 1895

Presently, as we were all smoking and exchanging compliments in the high-flown, stilted Samoan style, there entered the house a strapping young warrior, carrying a wickerwork cage, in which were two of the rare and famous _Manu Mea_ (red-bird) of Samoa -- the _Didunculus_ or tooth-billed pigeon.

The Call Of The South 1908 Louis Becke 1884

The remarkable feature of the bird is that whilst its legs are those of a pigeon, the beak is that of the parrot family, the upper mandible being hooked like the parrot's, the under one being deeply serrated; hence the name, tooth-billed pigeon.

The Call Of The South 1908 Louis Becke 1884

In birds, also, we see an advance from the imperfect tooth-billed and reptile-tailed birds of the secondary epoch, to the wonderfully developed falcons, crows, and swallows of our time.

Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

Bird species diversity is highest in the humid forests and the park is very important for the conservation of Amazon species of conservation concern, such as red-throated piping-guan Aburria cujubi, Gould’s toucanet Selenidera gouldii, snowy-capped manakin Pipra nattereri and tooth-billed wren Odontorchilus cinereus, that are restricted to the Amazon region south of the Amazon River and east of the Madeira River.

Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, Bolivia 2008