A bird beak is the most important resource it has, and every species has one solely designed for survival. Birds use beaks for just about everything: building nests, feeding their young ...

Photo by Mark Olsen[/caption] The most common shape for typical seed-eating birds is a short, thick, and conical beak. Think of the classic "triangle" shape. This strong, sturdy beak acts like a ...

“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 ...

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.

Its bizarre beak makes more sense upside down, as it is when the bird is filter feeding, head inverted. For most of my life, I didn’t pay attention to birds. Only in my 40s did I become a person ...

The bird’s bright beak and eye-ring penetrated the darkness, its form barely visible in the shadows. The Eurasian blackbird has large eyes relative to its body size – a trait that allows it to find ...

All parrots display hooked beaks and four toes per foot – two pointing forward and two pointing backwards – to enable fluid climbing in treetops and to handle fruit, nuts and other objects with ease.

RENO, Nev.— In response to a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that the rare western wildflower Tecopa bird’s beak may qualify for ...