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, cleaning ...

this bird gets its name because its bill is wide and flat at the end. When it’s swept through waters of lagoons and marshes and kept slightly ajar, this long beak is the perfect trap for small ...

The 20th century expansion of nectar feeders drove Anna’s Hummingbirds to spread across California—and transformed the birds ...

“Flamingos are super-specialized animals for filter feeding,” Ortega Jiménez said. “It’s not just the head, but the neck, their legs, their feet and all the behaviors they use just to effectively ...

Over time, natural selection favored finches with sharper, longer beaks. These birds were better equipped to quickly and easily pierce the skin of their booby bird neighbors. Vampire finches still ...

He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety ... of its very long beak. "Longipteryx is one of my favorite fossil birds, because it's just ...