Nature never runs out of ways to surprise us! It is endowed with birds that have beautiful covers of feathers on their bodies ...

Birds come in all shapes and sizes, but some stand out due to their extraordinary beaks! From tools for fishing to built-in filters, these six birds have some of the most unusual beak designs in ...

These beaks allow the birds to reach insects that are hidden ... Dabbling ducks, like mallards, have wide, flat bills with ...

“normal” beaks (examples shown of a petrel and a gull) and a bird with a tactile bill-tip organ (a tinamou, close relative of ostriches and emus and which has an ancestral bill-tip organ ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. After surviving a likely gunshot wound in July, a bald eagle in Missouri is showing an important sign of recovery–keratin ...

Under these drastically changing conditions, the struggle to survive favored the larger birds with deep, strong beaks for opening the hard seeds. Smaller finches with less-powerful beaks perished.

The flat beaks of ducks typically have soft edges for sensing food in the water and comblike lamellae inside to sieve out insects, seeds, and other morsels. (Photographed at Sylvan Heights Bird ...

In Alaska during the mid-1990s, bird experts noticed an uptick in overgrown, warped beaks among black-capped chickadees. Now, using high-throughput RNA sequencing, researchers at the University of ...

Medium ground finches with larger beaks could take advantage of alternate food sources because they could crack open larger seeds. The smaller-beaked birds couldn't do this, so they died of ...

Some of these vibrant beaks help birds stand out in dense tropical forests ... the American White Pelican grows a flat horn-like structure that appears on the top of the bright orange beak ...