The eye-catching coastal bird, with its long red-orange bill, stunning red-yellow ... which it pries open with its powerful, pointed beak. Recognizing the direness of the shorebird's endangerment ...
The dark plumage makes the bright orange-red beak with a yellowish tip ... As the name implies, the bird is native to the Indonesian island of Java. Unfortunately, its population there today ...
Atlantic Puffins were once almost extinct from Maine’s coast, their only native habitat in the United States. But after the success of Project Puffin, which worked to restore puffins to Eastern Egg ...
Few people have the tenacity of ecologists Peter and Rosemary Grant, willing to spend part of each year since 1973 in a tent on a tiny, barren volcanic island ... birds with deep, strong beaks ...
Then the smell hits, a choking reek of fish and ammonia from the birds' guano ... with vivid orange detailing on its head, beak, neck, and upper breast. On Possession Island king penguins have ...