Bird beaks have a variety of shapes and purposes. Here are common bird beak types you should look for and how they help birds ...

About two weeks ago I spent a few quiet hours in “Penn’s Woods” just listening and watching. Even though it wasn’t the best ...

Unity Hall, in collaboration with the Utica Children’s Museum and the Barneveld Library, invites families to take part in an ...

If you want a fun learning experience, watch the birds at your feeders. Notice the different types of beaks and how their shapes dictate a bird’s dining habits — particularly the way it consumes black ...

A new study has shed some new light on how the beaks of birds have adapted over time. A study, led by the University of Bristol, has shed some new light on how the beaks of birds have adapted over ...

Whether stubby, slender, spoon-shaped, flattened or sharply pointed, bird beaks can be highly specialized, and now, researchers have found that some even have built-in AC. For the first time, ...

Scientists are one step closer to understanding how modern birds evolved to have beaks, and the answer starts millions of years ago with some of the sexiest dinosaurs. Modern gulls, with their large ...

For years, birds have been showing up in the Anchorage area with beaks that are deformed, sometimes so severely misshapen that the birds cannot use them to pick up food and they starve. Most of the ...

With more people either sheltering or working from home these days, feeding and watching birds has become even more popular. In theory, it ought to be easy. You fill a feeder with seed, hang it ...

Kathleen Garland receives funding from the Australian Government, Monash University and Museums Victoria. Alistair Evans receives funding from the Australian Research Council and Monash University, ...

CHARLES DARWIN was fascinated by bird communication. In “The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex” he devoted equal space to both the sorts of sounds that emerge from birds’ beaks and the ...