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

After surviving a likely gunshot wound in July, a bald eagle in Missouri is showing an important sign of recovery–keratin ...

Birds come in all shapes and sizes, but some stand out due to their extraordinary beaks! From tools for fishing to built-in filters, these six birds have some of the most unusual beak designs in ...

“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 ...

It is endowed with birds that have beautiful covers of feathers on their bodies and perform unmissable courtship dances. But the vibrant and colourful beaks are one among those features that often ...

Living bird species also have no teeth, although some species – often aquatic ones – have ridges on their beaks. These may function similarly to simple teeth by helping the birds to hold on to ...

It is endowed with birds that have beautiful covers of feathers on their bodies and perform unmissable courtship dances. But the vibrant and colourful beaks are one among those features that often ...