Long, curved, akimbo: Hope uncovered for bird beak deformity DAN JOLING Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Biologist Colleen Handel saw her first black-capped chickadee with the heartrending ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska --Biologist Colleen Handel saw her first black-capped chickadee with the heartrending disorder in 1998. The tiny birds showed up at birdfeeders in Alaska’s largest city with ...

Deformed beaks occur in resident and migratory birds. A study of black-capped chickadees in Alaska showed "significantly higher" concentrations of a pesticide breakdown product, heptachlor epoxide ...

In black-capped chickadees and other birds affected by the deformity, ... To report a sighting of a bird with a deformed beak, visit the Alaska Science Center website at alaska.usgs.gov.

One of my most exciting and colorful birds has returned to my backyard, the black-headed grosbeak. Rose-breasted grosbeaks can be seen during migration through Eastern Montana on their way to ...

Look at a bird’s beak to see what family the bird belongs to and the kind of food it eats. Seeing a bird with a long, needlelike beak would tell us it’s in the hummingbird family that probes ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Biologist Colleen Handel saw her first black-capped chickadee with the heartrending disorder in 1998. The tiny birds showed up at birdfeeders in Alaska's largest city ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Biologist Colleen Handel saw her first black-capped chickadee with the heartrending disorder in 1998.The tiny birds showed up at birdfeeders in Alaska”s largest … ...