Life is a beak for this shore-footed heron - as it surfs river swells on a broken tree branch. The white bird was seen ...

Sometimes people underestimate the importance of beaks, bills, and rostrums in identifying species. Yet, a beak can make all ...

It is recognizable by its dark-brown face, long, white neck, and of course, a white backside that can only be seen when the bird is in flight ... as its beak is unable to rip through tough ...

Under these drastically changing conditions, the struggle to survive favored the larger birds with deep, strong beaks for opening the hard seeds. Smaller finches with less-powerful beaks perished.

Its hooked beak is all raptor. Birds are no less diverse behaviorally ... hooked beak makes short work of prey. Endangered, the white-headed duck (Oxyura leucocephala) is native to Spain, North ...