When it’s swept through waters of lagoons and marshes and kept slightly ajar, this long beak is the perfect trap for small ...

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.

A hawk’s beak is razor sharp and can tear the flesh off the small animals it eats. A hummingbird’s beak is long and thin, which helps it dip into the flowers to sip nectar (a sugary fluid the ...

As Charles Darwin showed nearly 150 years ago, bird beaks are exquisitely adapted to the birds' feeding strategy. A team of mathematicians and engineers has now explained exactly how some ...

Here Are 5 Birds with the Most Unusual Beaks: Credit : PEXELS. Black Skimmer . The black skimmer has a long and thin beak, featuring a lower mandible that extends beyond the upper one, ...