spadebill
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]spadebill (plural spadebills)
- Any of the birds in the genus Platyrinchus
- 2021 January 3, “Secret birds of Tobago”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[1]:
- Birds which tend to stick to the canopy are seldom seen without considerable neck pain; but there are several species which occupy a niche close to the forest floor and are just as infrequently encountered, such as the diminutive white-throated spadebill.