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

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 ...

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 ...

From birds of paradise” to platypus to “prairie ... the sexes by the length of their bills and a U.S. dollar bill. Males' beaks typically are less than the width of a US paper currency ...

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 ...