The sportsmen of the Beagle unanimously called it the short-billed snipe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

Men in blue uniforms, still wearing their short-billed caps, came out of the yard, their shift over.    From Wordnik.com.  [2nd Chance]

He had a stubby white beard, a wooden leg, and wore a short-billed officer's cap, the braid turned green.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time and Again]

He dressed in his trademark burgundy clothes, including a short-billed straw cap, and parked around the corner from the shop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Credentials] Reference

Canadian and short-billed jays were the only species recognised as being equally numerous at their breeding-places in winter and summer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 550, June 2, 1832] Reference

And we're not just talking about Ricky Barnes's short-billed hat, which was clearly stolen off an 11-year-old skateboarder outside an Orange Julius.    From Wordnik.com.  [The U.S. Open's Giant Water Hazard] Reference

Dunlin, black-bellied plovers, short-billed dowitchers, white ibis, great blue herons as well as black ducks, mallards and pintails have been recorded there.    From Wordnik.com.  [North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve] Reference

Species sighted include: dunlins, black-bellied plovers, short-billed dowitchers, white ibises, great blue herons, snowy egrets, Louisiana herons, black ducks mallards and pintails.    From Wordnik.com.  [North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve] Reference

Other birds found in this ecoregion include the western thornbill (Acanthiza inornata), and the short-billed black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus latirostris EN) which inhabits sandplain woodlands and mallee, and the long-billed black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus baudinii) which is found in open eucalypt woodland and farmland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swan Coastal Plain scrub and woodlands] Reference

While crabbing, some locals noticed a commotion on the beach, went to investigate and ended up wrestling a 1. 5m short-billed spearfish on to the shore.    From Wordnik.com.  [AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories] Reference

We did well with ducks, owls and warblers but missed a few anticipated shorebirds such as the white-rumped sandpiper, stilt sandpiper and short-billed dowitcher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Berks county news] Reference

I thought, for a moment, that it was the nest of the long-billed's cousin, the short-billed marsh-wren, that I had found -- which would have been a gem indeed, with pearly eggs instead of chocolate ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roof and Meadow] Reference

Migration peaks end of April/first of May with tens of thousands of birds: red knots, least and western sandpipers, sanderlings, dunlins, short-billed dowitchers, black-bellied and semipalmated plovers, greater yellowlegs - all doing their best to avoid hunting Peregrine falcons and merlins.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

It's a short-billed snipe, a corvus, a real corvus. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

The Abyssinian yellow-rumped seedeater (Serinus xanthopygius), the short-billed crombec (Sylvietta philippae, DD), and Sidamo bushlark (Heteromirafra sidamoensis, VU) are all restricted to this ecoregion as well, while the sombre chat (Cercomela dubia, DD), white-winged collared-dove (Streptopelia reichenowi), Salvadori’s weaver (Ploceus dicrocephalus), and the scaly babbler (Turdoides squamulatus) are considered near-endemic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets] Reference

The short-billed minivet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Indian Hills] Reference