These beaks allow the birds to reach insects that are hidden ... Dabbling ducks, like mallards, have wide, flat bills with fine lamellae. They feed by "dabbling," tipping forward in the water ...

The roseate spoonbill has a distinctive pink coloring and a wide, flat beak. The birds were once common in the southeastern U.S. but are considered a vulnerable species today because of habitat ...

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.

The flat beaks of ducks typically have soft edges for sensing food in the water and comblike lamellae inside to sieve out insects, seeds, and other morsels. (Photographed at Sylvan Heights Bird ...

Most Florida visitors are not familiar with spoonbills. When visitors see a large pink waterbird wading on the flats from a distance, they think that it is a pink flamingo. However, the flamingo is ...

The “chicken hawk” of colonial America, this medium-sized accipiter is a common sight at home bird feeders ... and flat-topped head are good field marks. Eye is close to the beak.