“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 ...

Beak size? Body size? Geography ... we analyzed more than hundred of thousand recordings that came from this amazing repository of bird sounds called xeno-canto, and this repository is where anyone ...

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!