When you’re in doubt, try to take a picture. You can compare it later to photos of similar-looking birds with red beaks. We hope you enjoyed our guide on birds with red beaks.

“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 ...

Under these drastically changing conditions, the struggle to survive favored the larger birds with deep, strong beaks for opening the hard seeds. Smaller finches with less-powerful beaks perished.