# Hookbill

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For a kind of large knife, see [Billhook](/source/Billhook).

**Hookbill** could refer to

- [Hook Bill](/source/Hook_Bill), a breed of domestic ducks
- the [avicultural](/source/Aviculture) term for members of the [parrot](/source/Parrot) family (typically anything larger than a [parakeet](/source/Parakeet)) based on the curved shape of the bill, distinguishing them from [softbills](/source/Softbill) and other birds such as [doves](/source/Dove) and [finches](/source/Finch)
- [Lanaʻi hookbill](/source/Lana%CA%BBi_hookbill) (*Dysmorodrepanis munroi*) an extinct Hawaiian finch
- The [chestnut-winged hookbill](/source/Chestnut-winged_hookbill) (*Ancistrops strigilatus*), of western Amazonia

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