Have you ever wondered why the Bald Eagle’s beak has a sharp curve at the end of the top of the beak yet sparrows’ beaks are short and end in a conical shape? A macaw’s beak is short and curved on the ...

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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, cleaning ...

New research on song sparrows offers a new take on bird-beak evolution that is more nuanced than earlier ideas based on finch studies A finch's beak evolves according to the size and shape of ...

The same diverse array of Galápagos finch species that helped inspire Charles Darwin's theory of evolution have now assisted in another discovery, this time relating to the genetic basis for the ...

BRISTOL, England, April 29 (UPI) --Bird species have evolved all sorts of specialized beaks for their respective dietary niches, but not birds of prey. According to new research out of England, ...

Anyone that has ever laid eyes on an Atlantic puffin will tell you about its incredibly colorful beak, but it now seems that there’s more going on here than meets the eye (or human eye, we should say) ...

In nature, every animal has its own way of adapting to survive. For birds, one of the most important tools they’ve developed is the beak. It’s not just for eating– beaks help with everything from ...