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UK
/bˈɑːbɪt/
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NOUN
- small brightly colored stout-billed tropical bird having short weak wings
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- Besides the narrow endemics listed above, characteristic birds of the escarpment forests and woodlands include red-crested turaco (Tauraco erythrolophus), red-backed mousebird (Colius castanotus) (both endemic to Angola), mottled spinetail (Telacanthura ussheri), batlike spinetail (Neafrapus boehmi), naked-faced barbet (Gymnobucco calvus), red-tailed palm thrush (Cichladusa ruficauda), and yellow-bellied wattle-eye (Dyaphorophyia concreta). Angolan scarp savanna and woodlands
- The green barbets also call spasmodically throughout the month, chiefly in the early morning and the late afternoon, but the only note uttered by the coppersmith is a soft _wow_. A Bird Calendar for Northern India
- Several crews just locked the barbettes in a fixed, rear-firing position.
- The barbette or porkpie hat was a stiff band of several inches depth that went around the head with a piece of fabric wrapping underthe chin to hold it on. When Were Women’s Hats in Fashion? « Colleen Anderson
- Chee peep, chee peep, a barbet called stridently in the branches of the kaffir boom tree under which they waited. When the Lion Feeds
- Our picture shows the 76 mm gun barbette on one of the tanks.
- Flocks of wintering water birds include the thrush, the kingfisher, the robin, the shama, the barbet, the bee-eater, the flycatcher, the sunbird, the bulbul and the drongo.
- _Devastation_ type of turret-ship were retained, mounted fore and aft, but instead of placing them in turrets, the turret armour was fixed to the deck, forming what is known as a "barbette," or breastwork, over the upper edge of which the gun fired. How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900
- Lovebirds, barbets, tits and finches warm themselves in the cozy chambers built by the weavers.
- A lot of birds from lapwings, robins, mynas, flycatchers, sunbirds, tailorbirds, warblers, babblers, barbets, francolins, orioles, pigeons and doves have nested on our property.