This time it was a Hoopoe that had turned up not too far away! Wigan Today. Graham Workman column: another rare bird. ... They use their long, decurved beak to probe the ground.

Bird beaks come in almost every shape and size ... Eastern osprey by Phill Wall (modified, CC BY 2.0), Eurasian hoopoe by Giles Laurent (modified, CC BY-SA 4.0), common ostrich by Diego Delso ...

The hoopoe, with its distinctive crown of feathers and long, earth-drilling beak, is a fascinating creature that primarily feeds on insects. ... The hoopoe is more than just a bird; ...

A bird’s beak colour can change due to various factors like age, diet, hormones, or seasonal changes. For example, some birds develop brighter beaks during mating season to attract partners.

The hoopoe skips up to the book that’s fallen from my sleepy fingers. My half open eyes greedily devour its crisp jewelled crest, idly wondering if enough poetry has been written on this soft ...

“In my 40 years of birding, I’ve never seen anything like this spring,” said Paul Connaughton, an ornithologist who sits on the Irish Rare Birds Committee, on a weekend hunt for the usually ...