Nature never runs out of ways to surprise us! It is endowed with birds that have beautiful covers of feathers on their bodies ...

Birds come in all shapes and sizes, but some stand out due to their extraordinary beaks! From tools for fishing to built-in filters, these six birds have some of the most unusual beak designs in ...

this bird gets its name because its bill is wide and flat at the end. When it’s swept through waters of lagoons and marshes and kept slightly ajar, this long beak is the perfect trap for small ...

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.

These beaks allow the birds to reach insects that are hidden ... Dabbling ducks, like mallards, have wide, flat bills with ...

“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 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 ...

In Alaska during the mid-1990s, bird experts noticed an uptick in overgrown, warped beaks among black-capped chickadees. Now, using high-throughput RNA sequencing, researchers at the University of ...

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.