Birds use beaks for just about everything: building nests, feeding their young, cleaning their feathers, defending themselves and eating (of course). But while birders have been able to pin down ...

The bird world has some of the funkiest displays when it comes to attracting a mate. From building elaborate nests to impress ...

Sure enough, the birds best adapted to eat those seeds because of their smaller beaks were the ones that survived and produced the most offspring. Evolution had cycled back the other direction.

Bird beaks come in all shapes and sizes, and through observing those differences we can learn a lot about them. Our education ...

Living bird species also have no teeth, although some species – often aquatic ones – have ridges on their beaks. These may function similarly to simple teeth by helping the birds to hold on to ...

Beak size? Body size? Geography? To answer some of these questions, researchers analyzed over 140,000 bird vocalizations from all over the world to try to peck out some kernels of knowledge about bird ...

Heads are turned so beaks can be buried into the shoulder ... Watch for other protective behaviors: as birds turn their backs to the sun to soak in maximum warmth, for instance, or as they cuddle ...

We estimate about 18,000 dead baby elephant seals." Dead from bird flu. And it wasn't just elephant seals. There were terns – ...

From building elaborate nests to impress or mastering the moves of a dance, the birds of planet Earth know how to shake their tail feathers. Now it seems they’ve been putting on more of a visual ...