21 Birds with Long Beaks for Your Bird Watching List A lot ... the Eurasian Hoopoe flaunts its crested head in marvelous ...

Nature never runs out of ways to surprise us! It is endowed with birds that have beautiful covers of feathers on their bodies ...

The snipe, with its brown and yellowish plumage and short ... Like storks, pelicans are water birds with long beaks, but their beaks come with an expandable pouch. This lets them scoop up fish ...

Birds come in all shapes and sizes, but some stand out due to their extraordinary beaks! From tools for fishing ... nearly 18 inches long, for catching fish and excreting salt.

This story appears in the April 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. A flamingo looks like a bird cooked up by an exuberant preschooler—absurdly long legs, knobby ankles (that look like ...