When it’s swept through waters of lagoons and marshes and kept slightly ajar, this long beak is the perfect trap for small ..

Large raptors, like red-tailed hawks ... 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 ...

Native to Central and South America, this bird’s bill is a mix of neon green, bright orange, turquoise, and red ... waters in search of small fish. Their striking beak not only serves a ...

The zebra finch bird is soft gray, with red eyes, "tear drop" markings (small black lines running straight down under each eye), and bright orange legs and beak. The male zebra finch has a deeper ...

The general idea is clear enough: medium-sized, black-and-white birds with red highlights that use their beaks to pound upon trees. Some moderately attentive backyard birdwatchers may well be ...

Even fewer would have the patience to catch, weigh, measure, and identify hundreds of small birds and record ... survive favored the larger birds with deep, strong beaks for opening the hard ...

This small, but long-beaked ... is one of my favorite fossil birds, because it’s just so weird—it has this long skull, and teeth only at the tip of its beak,” Jingmai O’Connor, a study ...

Paleontologists initially compared the ancient bird to the contemporary kingfisher because of its similarly-shaped skull and beak, and diet of small fish. That resemblance turned out to be a red ...

FADEL: Now, the northern bald ibis is a wading bird with a big red beak and a head that's free of feathers, and it's supposed to fly south for the winter to survive. But because the birds were ...

Native to Central and South America, this bird’s bill is a mix of neon green, bright orange, turquoise, and red, it is so vibrant that it almost looks artificial. Despite its size, the beak is ...