In contrast to the pied avocet, the long beak of the Eurasian curlew curves ... to probe into the mud for worms and other small animals. The bird also has the benefit of its eyes being near ...

Birds are vertebrate animals adapted for flight ... The smallest is the two-inch-long bee hummingbird. Everything about the anatomy of a bird reflects its ability to fly. The wings, for example ...

we protect all the animals and people who also depend on water for survival. The fate of the Tecopa bird’s beak and the fate of desert communities are intertwined.” Today’s announcement kicks off a ...

“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 ...

Researchers sequenced the DNA of Cuban blue-headed quail dove, expecting clear origins. Instead, they found it has no close ...

Throughout the night, great potoos emit a loud, moaning growl that has earned the bird a mythical status, with some ...

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.

President Higgins leads tributes after death of Matt Murphy, founder of Sherkin Island Marine Station ...