Nature never runs out of ways to surprise us! It is endowed with birds that have beautiful covers of feathers on their bodies and perform unmissable courtship dances. But the vibrant and colourful ...

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 ...

We get captivated by a bird’s plumage and may not think to notice its beak, which is critical to the bird’s identity. I’ve often heard people yell “flamingo!” when they see a pink-plumed bird feeding ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

These are the flashiest, most specialized beaks around. The black skimmer has a truly unique bill among shorebirds, and really, among all North American birds. The beak is large yet very thin, and the ...

Over the years, scientists have learned about literally thousands of different bird species, and each one sports a distinctive beak shape. But why do bird beaks come in so many different shapes and ...