Shrikes are predatory songbirds that have hooked beaks to help them feed on everything from lizards and insects to small birds and mammals. Theyre known to kill more prey in one sitting than they ...

scientists believe that the length of the white plumage is an indicator of the bird's overall health. If you look at the Common Waxbill from the side, the small red beak looks like it's an ...

The small, soft ones were quickly exhausted ... the struggle to survive favored the larger birds with deep, strong beaks for opening the hard seeds. Smaller finches with less-powerful beaks ...

“It’s a gut-wrenching experience when we see these small birds with gross beak deformities,” study coauthor Colleen Handel, a wildlife biologist with the US Geological Survey ...

“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 ...

In response to a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that the rare western wildflower Tecopa bird’s beak may qualify for protection ...

The small brown bird weighs around 16 grams (roughly half an ounce) and has black and yellow bands along with a large beak. The finding, which was reported in the science journal Nature ...