Have you ever seen a shoebill?
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Shoebill
//ˈʃu.bɪl//
Synonyms for "shoebill" (5 found)
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56 translations across 52 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- skoenbekooievaar noun (wading bird)
Albanian
1 entries- lejleku sqepgjerë noun (wading bird)
Arabic
1 entries- أبو مركوب noun (wading bird)
Assamese
1 entries- জোতাঠোঁটীয়া noun (wading bird)
Asturian
1 entries- picozapato noun (wading bird)
Breton
1 entries- beg-botez noun (wading bird)
Bulgarian
1 entries- китоглава чапла noun (wading bird)
Catalan
1 entries- bec d'esclop noun (wading bird)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 鯨頭鸛 /鲸头鹳 noun (wading bird)
Czech
1 entries- člunozobec africký noun (wading bird)
Danish
1 entries- træskonæb noun (wading bird)
Dutch
1 entries- schoenbekooievaar noun (wading bird)
Esperanto
1 entries- ŝubekulo noun (wading bird)
Finnish
1 entries- kenkänokka noun (wading bird)
French
2 entries- abu-markub noun (wading bird)
- bec-en-sabot du Nil noun (wading bird)
Galician
1 entries- peteiro zapato noun (wading bird)
Georgian
1 entries- ვეშაპთავა ყანჩა noun (wading bird)
German
1 entries- Schuhschnabel noun (wading bird)
Greek
1 entries- φαλαινοκέφαλος noun (wading bird)
Hebrew
1 entries- מנעלן noun (wading bird)
Hungarian
1 entries- papucscsőrű madár noun (wading bird)
Ingush
1 entries- зIокармаьчи noun (wading bird)
Irish
1 entries- bróg-ghob noun (wading bird)
Italian
1 entries- becco a scarpa noun (wading bird)
Japanese
1 entries- ハシビロコウ noun (wading bird)
Kazakh
1 entries- наханбасты noun (wading bird)
Korean
1 entries- 넓적부리황새 noun (wading bird)
Latvian
1 entries- tupeļknābis noun (wading bird)
Lithuanian
1 entries- batasnapis noun (wading bird)
Luganda
1 entries- bbuulwe noun (wading bird)
Malayalam
1 entries- ഷൂബിൽ noun (wading bird)
Navajo
1 entries- chʼídeeldlóohiitsoh noun (wading bird)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- treskonebb noun (wading bird)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- treskonebb noun (wading bird)
Polish
1 entries- trzewikodziób noun (wading bird)
Portuguese
1 entries- bico-de-tamanco noun (wading bird)
Romanian
2 entries- abumarkub noun (wading bird)
- pasărea sabot noun (wading bird)
Russian
2 entries- китогла́в noun (wading bird)
- короле́вская ца́пля noun (wading bird)
Saterland Frisian
1 entries- Schousnoabel noun (wading bird)
Scots
1 entries- shaebill noun (wading bird)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- corra bròg-ghobach noun (wading bird)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- roda cipelarka noun (wading bird)
- рода ципеларка noun (wading bird)
Slovak
1 entries- člnozobec kráľovský noun (wading bird)
Slovene
1 entries- čevljekljun noun (wading bird)
Spanish
1 entries- picozapato noun (wading bird)
Swedish
1 entries- träskonäbb noun (wading bird)
Tamil
1 entries- காலணி-அலகு நாரை noun (wading bird)
Thai
1 entries- นกกระสาปากพลั่ว noun (wading bird)
Turkish
1 entries- pabuç gagalı noun (wading bird)
Ukrainian
1 entries- китоголо́в noun (wading bird)
Vietnamese
1 entries- cò mỏ giày noun (wading bird)
Welsh
1 entries- ciconia pig esgid noun (wading bird)
Sample sentences
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The Shoebill is distinctive in many aspects of its biology, and is thus, we feel, most appropriately placed in its own family, the Balaenicipitidae (L. Buxton et al. 1978, Kahl 1979a). The fact that we have included it in this book, while excluding the Hamerkop, indicates that we believe the Shoebill to be closer to the storks (Kahl 1967b, 1979c); however the jury remains out as to how close.
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Nevertheless, Birdlife International recently classified it as near-globally threatened, and it is classed as CITES Appendix 2, which means that trade in shoebills, or their capture for any harmful activity, is forbidden by international law.
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The monstrous and awesome shoebill is possibly the most bizarre bird on the African continent.
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