Throughout the night, great potoos emit a loud, moaning growl that has earned the bird a mythical status, with some ...

around their mouths to further aid in capturing prey. Some insect-eating birds, like certain creepers, have slightly curved beaks that help them probe into crevices and under bark. These beaks ...

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.

The bird’s bright beak and eye-ring penetrated the darkness ... As a result, it must cock its head to catch sight of prey. Originally woodland birds, blackbirds now visit forests, farmland and gardens ...

“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 ...

The magnificent Andean condor is the world's biggest bird of prey, with a wingspan maxing out at around 3.2m, and weighing up to 15kg ...

Birds have many different shaped beaks depending on their diet. Carnivores – Animals which eat meat. Birds of prey like owls and hawks are carnivores and eat animals and other birds. Many other ...