they need open spaces without obstructions to demonstrate their active flight skills. The kiwi bird is a small ratite bird ...

Friends of Big Bear Valley announced Sunday afternoon that pipping had begun for Jackie and Shadow, who’ve experienced years of heartbreak ...

Many can name a panda or a pangolin, but the yellow-crested cockatoo barely gets a nod. That’s wild, considering this little ...

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.

Photographer Ryan Wilkes captured a hummingbird from a perspective that’s typically unseen. This slow-motion close-up of a ...

perfect for cracking open seeds and grains. The wide base of the beak provides the necessary strength, while the pointed tip ...

“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 ...