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 ...

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

The struggle is mainly about food -- different types of seeds -- and the availability ... the struggle to survive favored the larger birds with deep, strong beaks for opening the hard seeds.

They use their wings to swim underwater instead. There are lots of different types of birds and they all have feathers, a beak, two legs and two wings just like Sophie the barn owl. Penguins are ...

“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 ...

The bird world has some of the funkiest displays when it comes to attracting a mate. From building elaborate nests to impress or mastering the moves of a dance, the birds of planet Earth know how ...

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 ...

A newly discovered fossil in Antarctica, estimated to be 68 million years old, reveals the oldest known modern bird, Vegavis ...

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