The flock’s cawing will be too loud for you not to turn around and enjoy the view ... of the bird's overall health. If you look at the Common Waxbill from the side, the small red beak looks ...

A bird beak is the most important resource it has, and every species has one solely designed for survival. Birds use beaks ...

“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 ...

In the avian world, birds showcase an incredible diversity of beaks—some enormous, others unusually long, and some even lethal. All hornbill species have a unique structure called a casque on ...

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.