Hookbill
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Hookbill could refer to
- the aviculturalAvicultureAviculture is the practice of keeping and breeding birds and the culture that forms around it. Aviculture is generally focused on not only the raising and breeding of birds, but also on preserving avian habitat, and public awareness campaigns....
term for members of the parrotParrotParrots, also known as psittacines , are birds of the roughly 372 species in 86 genera that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most tropical and subtropical regions. The order is subdivided into three families: the Psittacidae , the Cacatuidae and the Strigopidae...
family (typically anything larger than a parakeetParakeetParakeet is a term for any one of a large number of unrelated small to medium sized species of parrot, that generally have long tail feathers...
) based on the shape of the bill, distinguishing them from softbillSoftbillThe following description has been taken, with permission, from -The term softbill is not a scientific one and has been used, and more often misused, in aviculture for numerous years...
s and other birds such as doveDovePigeons and doves constitute the bird family Columbidae within the order Columbiformes, which include some 300 species of near passerines. In general terms "dove" and "pigeon" are used somewhat interchangeably...
s and finchFinchThe true finches are passerine birds in the family Fringillidae. They are predominantly seed-eating songbirds. Most are native to the Northern Hemisphere, but one subfamily is endemic to the Neotropics, one to the Hawaiian Islands, and one subfamily – monotypic at genus level – is found...
es. This indicates the bird will use the bill to be an active climber and is recommended to be put in a cageBirdcageA birdcage is a cage designed to house birds as pets.Antique birdcages are often popular as collectors' items or as household decor but most are not suitable for housing live birds, being too small, or of unsafe materials or construction...
with horizontal bars. It also refers to the much stronger crushing power of the beak. - Lanaʻi Hookbill (Dysmorodrepanis munroi) an extinct Hawaiian finch.
- The Chestnut-winged HookbillChestnut-winged HookbillThe Chestnut-winged Hookbill is a species of bird in the Furnariidae family. It is the only member of the genus Ancistrops....
(Ancistrops strigilatus), of western Amazonia.