Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!samsung!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au!spam!spam.ua.oz.au!wvenable From: wvenable@spam.ua.oz.au (Bill Venables) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: eating feathers Message-ID: Date: 10 Jan 91 02:36:46 GMT References: <2830@hsi86.hsi.com> <1789@cluster.cs.su.oz.au> Sender: wvenable@spam.ua.oz Organization: Adelaide University. Lines: 12 In-reply-to: andrewt@cs.su.oz's message of 10 Jan 91 00:54:11 GMT In article <1789@cluster.cs.su.oz.au> andrewt@cs.su.oz (Andrew Taylor) writes: [..] > While I'm being irrelevant, can anyone know a living bird species where the > sexes have different-shaped bills. I have a reference that says several > birds do but only mentions the extinct New Zealand Huia. In Eclectus parrots the sexes have different *coloured* bills. Is that irrelevant enough for you, Andrew? :-) -- Bill Venables, Dept. of Statistics, | Email: venables@spam.adelaide.edu.au Univ. of Adelaide, South Australia. | Phone: +61 8 228 5412