A prehistoric feathered throwback that stands five feet tall, this apex predator easily swallows its younger siblings, and ...

Some birds may remove nectar without transferring much pollen, making them less beneficial to plants. The shape of a bird’s beak (or bill, same thing) compared to a flower’s structure is thought to ...

I spotted this rook with a very unusual beak in Galway city lately. Despite the unusual shape it seemed very healthy and was ...

The markings gradually fade as the chicks mature. The sword-billed hummingbird is the only bird with a beak longer than its body, measuring 3 to 4 inches.

“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 ...

yellow beak and brown body — as the national bird. The bald eagle has appeared on the Great Seal of the United States, which is used in official documents, since 1782, when the design was finalized.

A flamingo looks like a bird cooked up by an exuberant preschooler—absurdly long legs, knobby ankles (that look like knees), a snaky neck, and an outsize beak ... its hooked bill it scrapes ...

yellow beak and brown body — as the national bird. Read more: The eagle isn’t actually the national bird. An effort launched in Wabasha may change that. The bald eagle has appeared on the ...