Researchers have modelled a pair of tweezers to mimic the shape of the 4.3 centimetre average beak of the New Caledonian crow (Corvus moneduloides) – an intelligent species of bird known to use ...

As a groundwater-dependent species in the nation’s driest state, the Tecopa bird’s beak is uniquely vulnerable to extinction, ...

Plus, these fish-eating birds had lots of teeth, all the way along their beaks, unlike how Longipteryx only has teeth at the very tip of its beak,” said O’Connor. “It just didn’t add up.” ...

Finch Beak Data Sheet: Few people have the tenacity of ecologists Peter and Rosemary Grant , willing to spend part of each year since 1973 in a tent on a tiny, barren volcanic island in the Galapagos.

These birds don’t just use their beaks for eating or survival; in many cases, their colourful bills play important roles in communication, mating displays, ...