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A large difference in bill length, and presumably feeding ecology as well, characterizes sympatric congeneric species of birds on islands of the West Indies. This is attributable more to a large initial difference between the colonists than to divergence in the island environment.
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Peter R. Grant (1969) studied this question.
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