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Having a thick beak.

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  • As the last parrot species native to the United States, thick-billed parrots are endangered.
  • The thick-billed murre population has been cut in half, 16 of 40 colonies shot to oblivion, mainly from illegal summer hunting.
  • Hydrographic features, cetaceans and the foraging of thick-billed murres and other marine birds in the northwestern Barents Sea.
  • The thick-billed parrot (Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha, EN) once occurred in Arizona and New Mexico but is now restricted to northern and central Mexico.
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