wry-billed plover

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

n.


a very rare birdof New Zealand, Anarhynchus frontalis, Quoy and Gaim.

1889. Prof. Parker, `Catalogue of New Zealand Exhibition,'p. 116:

«The curious wry-billed plover . . . the only bird known inwhich the bill is turned not up or down, but to one side – – theright.»

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