Nature never runs out of ways to surprise us! It is endowed with birds that have beautiful covers of feathers on their bodies ...

For a beak, it has a rough and dark 8.5-in bill that matches its black plumage. With the sharp tip, the bird can catch its ...

A bird beak is the most important resource it has ... cone-shaped bills are some of the strongest around. Look closely at a black skimmer and you may notice it seems to have an underbite.

Birds' beaks, evolved for survival, showcase nature's perfect tools for tasks like catching fish and cracking seeds.

Rooks have have black plumage with a purple-blue sheen — and they have untidy-looking feathers around their thighs (like ...

His body was covered in thick, white down, offset by a black beak, black talons and a few black ... Owls do not build nests like other birds do. Instead, a female snowy—larger and darker than ...

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

Three rare bird species were sighted in Alabama over the last week. See which unique species were spotted and what we know ...

“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 ...

Birds have feathers and a beak and lay hard-shelled eggs. Many birds are able to fly using their wings, but others such as ostriches are flightless and unable to fly. Some birds like penguins ...

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.