The beak can also give us a bit of insight into ... or even the blood of their prey. In summary, the bill of a bird of prey is a powerful tool, perfectly adapted for their carnivorous diet.

Its bizarre beak makes more sense upside down ... (weebills), or as long as the rest of their body (sword-billed hummingbirds). Some birds—the painted bunting in Texas, Gould’s sunbird ...

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

“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 ...

By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Birds are fairly odd creatures, but among the odd are the oddest — strange and wacky evolutions that perfectly suit their ecological niche while appearing alien and ...

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 ...

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 ...