Piping plover parents have their work cut out for them with these precocious chicks. Ready to roam the beach just hours after ...

Photo by Mark Olsen[/caption] The most common shape for typical seed-eating birds is a short, thick, and conical beak. Think of the classic "triangle" shape. This strong, sturdy beak acts like a ...

The black spot leads to a tiny triangular orange-red beak. However, males have more vivid beak colorations. They’re also larger and have a wider black bib spot than the females. The birds are ...

“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 ...

Brown-headed Paradise-Kingfisher Tanysiptera danae Order – Family: Coraciiformes – Alcedinidae Physical Description: This ...