Hurried votes on long bills is how we got the President's health care law.

Males are generally larger than females and have longer bills.

The lower rate on the longer bills reflects moves by investors to lock in rates they expect to fall.

Mountain bluebirds are slightly larger, with longer bills and tails.

They search for food while walking, sometimes probing with their long bills, in shallow water or mud.

Bill dealers attributed some of the gains in the longer bills to money taken from the stock market, which was battered this week.

Horneros are brown birds with rather short tails and fairly long bills.

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It should, however, be noted that bill length varies between sexes, the females having longer bills than the males.

They search for invertebrates in the mud with a "sewing-machine" action of their long bills.

Overall they have long bills and short necks, wings and tails.

The jacamars are elegant brightly coloured birds with long bills and tails.

Male birds have longer bills than females, the reason for which is unknown but suggests differentiation in feeding technique.

These are brightly plumaged compact birds with short tails, large heads and long bills.

Wattled Cranes have long bills and black legs and toes.

Their long bills allow them to probe deeply in the sand for aquatic worms and molluscs.

Male birds generally have longer bills and legs, though there is enough overlap that the sexes are indistinguishable, even in the hand.

They have long, pointed wings and long bills.

They have stout or long bills and strong feet, with around two-thirds of the species being strongly sexually dimorphic.

Sexes are similar, although males have longer bills and females have a dark band across their upper breast.

Females have slightly longer bills than males.

They feed at night or in the evenings, searching for invertebrates in soft ground with their long bills.

Caps with long bills represented the Lincoln Tunnel, another inspiration for the collection, the designer said.

So they lounged about for several days, supporting themselves on fruits, which, however, they found some difficulty in eating with their long bills.

Antrostomus species have relatively long bills and rictal bristles.