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

Is it bill or is it beak? Even around the Birds & Blooms office, were not always sure if we should say beak or bill. So we asked naturalists Kenn and Kimberly Kaufman to weigh in. Ornithologists ...

thicker beaks used for picking insects from the surface of mud or sand. In essence, the bills of wading birds are highly ...

Birds' beaks, evolved for survival, showcase nature's perfect tools for tasks like catching fish and cracking seeds.

“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 ...

Bill structure is important in determining what different species of birds are able to eat, so natural selection has played an important role in the evolution of bird feeding habits. In "Meat ...

But the vibrant and colourful beaks are one among those features that often steal the show. While many birds have basic brown or black bills, a few species have beaks that look like they’ve been ...

these six birds have some of the most unusual beak designs in the animal kingdom. Toucans possess the largest bird bills at 7.5 inches, used for reaching fruit and mating rituals. Their ...