- and a few
other species. All
these birds kill with
their beaks,
using a
tomial "tooth" on the side of
their beaks—unlike the hawks, eagles, and
other birds...
- In anatomy, the
tomium is the
sharp cutting edge of the beak of a bird or the bill of a turtle.
Sometimes the edge is
serrated for
tearing through flesh...
-
sharp projections, as do the shrikes. The
tomial teeth of
falcons are
underlain by bone,
while the
shrike tomial teeth are
entirely keratinous. Some fish-eating...
-
irises are brown. The beak is short, black, and hooked, and
contains a
tomial tooth to help tear into prey. It is
difficult to **** an
adult loggerhead...
- The
skull was
rather robust, with deep jaws,
especially the mandible. The
tomial crest of the
upper jaw (a bony
support for the jaw's
cutting edge) was straight...
- It has a long tail and
relatively small bill, on each side of
which is a
tomial tooth; the
upper mandible bears a
triangular ridge which fits a corresponding...
-
straight bills that are
longer than
their heads,
along with
curved culmens and
tomial serrations. The
lower mandible appears to have some
yellowish colorations...
- The
smaller members of the
order have a comb-like mandible, made by the
tomial plate, for
plankton feeding. Most
members of the
order are
unable to walk...
- with a
tomial tooth. The legs are grey-brown to grey, and the
claws are pale grey. The
immature has
laxer plumage and does not have a
tomial tooth. Its...
- to green-yellow, with a
vertical black line at its base, red and
ivory tomial "teeth", and some
green striations on the maxilla.
Their crown, nape, upperparts...
