The anhinga has a thin pointy beak, while the cormorant’s beak is thicker and more rounded. Cormorants also have shorter tails, and lack silvery wing patches.

The Beaky Finders Cretaceous birds were thought to have small bills—except this one This creature lived long before modern birds evolved large beaks.

Seeing a bird with a long, needlelike beak would tell us it’s in the hummingbird family that probes flowers to get energy from nectar.

Affected birds grow beaks that are freakishly long and that sometimes curve up or down. It has affected 6.5 percent of southcentral Alaska’s black-capped chickadees and 17 percent of the area ...

Plus, these fish-eating birds had lots of teeth, all the way along their beaks, unlike how Longipteryx only has teeth at the very tip of its beak," says O'Connor.

With evidence suggesting Longipteryx wasn’t hunting fish, researchers are now left to wonder what its long, pointed beak and unusually strong teeth were used for.

Longipteryx is a weird fossil bird with a long beak with super-hard teeth at the tip. Based on its beak, scientists have guessed that it ate fish, but in this new study, scientists discovered ...

The latest findings raise new questions about how the bird may have used its long, pointy beak and strong teeth.

The blackbirds and orioles are a diverse group with sturdy and pointed beaks. All of the males have at least some black color on the body and some have bright colored and iridescent plumage. Other ...

In Britain, significant numbers of blue tits, a close relative of black-capped chickadees, have been observed with beak deformities. In all, 36 species with deformed beaks have been documented there.