It’s pretty safe to say that a bird’s beak is one of its most obvious features. And it’s super important! It’s used for ...

These birds with big beaks can be found in marshy areas of Florida and the Gulf Coast, where their populations are recovering after years of overhunting. 4. of 15. Red Crossbill .

Birds now live all over the world and their beaks are adapted to each place in very special ways. We see beak shapes for eating fruit, netting insects, piercing and tearing meat, and even sipping ...

Learn about the differences between ravens and crows, including their sizes, beaks, calls, and—if you're lucky to witness it—their smarts.

After all, most birds snatch prey just fine using only their beaks and feet. Toolmaking among crows may have happened by chance, and then tool use become ingrained in their biology.

Researchers have modelled a pair of tweezers to mimic the shape of the 4.3 centimetre average beak of the New Caledonian crow (Corvus moneduloides) – an intelligent species of bird known to use ...

Tweezers based on the shape of a crow’s beak can work better at picking up objects than the types people have used for thousands of years. Archaeologists have found tweezers dating back to 2450 ...

This bird's big beak more closely resembles those of modern birds. This is a curious finding. Modern birds are much more diverse than ancient ones when it comes to their faces.

Finch Beak Data Sheet: Few people have the tenacity of ecologists Peter and Rosemary Grant , willing to spend part of each year since 1973 in a tent on a tiny, barren volcanic island in the Galapagos.

Now that Dr. Ortega-Jiménez’s curiosity about flamingo-instigated fluid dynamics has been satisfied, he plans to turn his attention to what is going on inside the birds’ beaks during feeding.