“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.

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

American white pelican has a large, heavy beak that's yellow-orange in color. Besides catching fish, pelicans use their bills to get rid of excess salt ...

Meet the skimmer, a bird who does exactly what you'd expect. These fascinating avians catch fish by skimming the water with their beaks!