Your fingernails and a bird beak have something in common: They both consist of a protein called keratin. The keratin layer over bone gives beaks their glossy appearance. As the keratin wears down ...

Ensure you have all the equipment necessary prior to restraint of the bird. Many commercially available options exist for feeding tubes. The two most commonly used types of tubes are curved ball ...

The Fresno Chaffee Zoo is hosting a March Madness-style competition to see which habitat can raise the most money. As a ...

Parrot fish are available whole, gutted and frozen. They are available year round. Many reef-dwelling species are considered to be over-exploited. If you have concerns ask your fishmonger.

“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 ...

Darwin thought that evolution took place over hundreds or thousands of years ... and the tree finch has a parrot-shaped beak suited for stripping bark to find insects. The Grants have focused ...