A: These tawny owls with their dramatically outlined eyes spend their time in wide open spaces in their daily hunt for small rodents. You almost surely won’t see them in a city setting but you might ...

Under its beak will be a flap of skin that extends when they catch fish. The bird has orange, short legs and a dusting of orange around its eyes. Humans can find them throughout Central ...

American white pelican has a large, heavy beak that's yellow-orange in color. Besides catching fish, pelicans use their bills to get rid of excess salt ...

Birds captivate us with their stunning appearances and remarkable adaptations, and some species stand out for their exceptionally colourful beaks These beaks not only add to the beauty of nature ...

“For nearly 250 years, we called the bald eagle the national bird when it wasn’t,” said Jack Davis, co-chair of the National ...

“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 ...

Many sported bizarre features such as toothed beaks and long, bony tails. Vegavis, however, would have been ducklike in size and similar ecologically to aquatic bird species such as loons ...