The beaks tell us the birds are roseate spoonbills that sweep their broad flat beaks through shallow water while seining for marine organisms and snapping the beak shut upon contact.

In nature, every animal has its own way of adapting to survive. For birds, one of the most important tools they’ve developed ...

With a little egg tinkering, scientists replaced a duck’s flat bill with a quail’s pointy beak, breeding some funny-looking birds. But University of California scientists who switched birds ...

Birds have different kinds of beaks, so not all birds will eat all kinds of seed. ... These birds tend to come in large flocks and can polish off a feeder full of millet in no time flat.

For more than a century the only known skulls of the ancient bird Ichthyornis were either fragmentary, smashed flat or both. Now, high-tech analyses of four fossilized three-dimensional skulls ...

Rare fossil dating back 86 million years suggests the first bird beaks had TEETH ... but most fossils are squashed flat during the fossilisation process, ...

Question: Whatever happened to the third bird that went missing from the Honolulu Zoo last March after vandals slashed open 24 bird cages?

Have you ever wondered why certain Northern Arizona bird species remain here year-round while others fly south to warmer environments? On any clear, frigid winter’s day, we spy house finches ...