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 ...

The researchers identified a critical link between ecology and speciation in Darwin’s finches, the iconic birds of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Previous work had established that the finches’ beaks ...

“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 ...

Further study of their beaks and food-gathering behaviour could help conserve some of these birds, many of which are at threat of extinction. The results are reported in the journal Biology Letters.

18, 2024 — Millions of birds migrate every year to escape winter, but spending time in a warmer climate does not save them energy, according to new research. ... Highly-Sensitive Beaks Could ...

Both sexes have slaty black plumage with a slight wash of olive-brown on the wings and upperparts (usually not visible in the field). Their beaks are bright yellow, but the irises, eye rings, legs, ...

Prior work on these birds had established that birds' beaks adapt to changing ecological environments, and that beak changes affect how the birds sing. But, until this paper, no one has yet been ...

An international team of researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, studied over 350 species of modern birds and found that seabirds have a high density of sensory receptors and nerves at the ...

Some seabirds might have a ‘sixth sense’ at the end of their beak, new research reveals. Getting a better understanding of the bill-tip in penguins and albatrosses might provide new ways to protect ...

In recent years, Barrow has been a whole lot more busy with Beak>, the krautrock-influenced trio that he co-founded in 2008. Beak surprise-released their fourth album >>>> earlier this year ...