A bird beak is the most important resource it has, and every species has one solely designed for survival. Birds use beaks for just about everything: building nests, feeding their young ...

Here are ten birds, or types of birds with some of the world’s longest beaks. These birds evolved to wade in water and spear their prey, so they not only have some of the world’s longest beaks ...

“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 struggle is mainly about food -- different types of seeds -- and the availability ... the struggle to survive favored the larger birds with deep, strong beaks for opening the hard seeds.

They use their wings to swim underwater instead. There are lots of different types of birds and they all have feathers, a beak, two legs and two wings just like Sophie the barn owl. Penguins are ...

New research shows how physical changes in the skull affected the mechanics of the way birds move and use their beaks to eat and explore their habitats -- adaptations that helped them evolve into the ...