And in short-term periods of extreme temperatures, having a big beak can be a liability. Hot air from the environment will actually move into the beak, causing the bird to heat up too much ...

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 ...

“normal” beaks (examples shown of a petrel and a gull) and a bird with a tactile bill-tip organ (a tinamou, close relative of ostriches and emus and which has an ancestral bill-tip organ ...

As fast as a hummingbird’s wings are, its beak moves at equally breakneck speed. They prey on small insects such as gnats, ...

Australia Fashion Week is just a few days away, but this group of geese are hoping to muscle in on the act with their very own fashion parade. Dressed up in the latest styles, the geese took to ...