When it’s swept through waters of lagoons and marshes and kept slightly ajar, this long beak is the perfect trap for small aquatic life. The pied avocet is a much smaller wading bird than the ...

Sometimes people underestimate the importance of beaks, bills, and rostrums in identifying species. Yet, a beak can make all ...

Even fewer would have the patience to catch, weigh, measure, and identify hundreds of small birds and record ... survive favored the larger birds with deep, strong beaks for opening the hard ...

The bottom part of the bird's beak is long and curves upwards, while it appears to have a shorter than normal top part to its beak. It has been visiting a bird table filled with food by Nairn ...