A bird beak is the most important resource it has, and every species has one solely designed for survival. Birds use beaks for just about everything: building nests, feeding their young, cleaning ...

Look at a bird’s beak to see what family the bird belongs to and the kind of food it eats. Seeing a bird with a long, needlelike beak would tell us it’s in the hummingbird family that probes flowers ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Scientists already knew that birds evolved ...

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These lessons were designed to accompany parts three, four, and five of the PBS Life of Birds series. Although this lesson plan was primarily developed for grades 9-12, teachers of elementary or ...

Birds with larger bills spend more time hiding their noses from the cold. You know what they say about the birds and their beaks—the bigger they are, the harder they snuggle. Research published ...