Birds That Look More Like Dinosaurs, Reptiles, and Aliens

When most people imagine a bird, they picture an animal with feathers, wings, and a beak perched on a tree branch. However, ...
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This bird uses its beak as a needle to sew its nest

Found across South and Southeast Asia, the common tailorbird (Orthotomus sutorius) is just 4 to 5 inches long and weighs less ...
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6 bird beak types and how birds use them to eat

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, cleaning ...
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Meet the 5-Foot Bird That Eats Baby Crocodiles

Just the name “shoebill” is a clue that this is a strange bird. The shoebill (Balaeniceps rex) is a type of stork so named for its oversized bill resembling a Dutch clog. Bird beaks can be sorted into ...
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How the Pandemic Lockdowns Changed a Songbird’s Beak

For ecologists, the Covid-19 pandemic has presented a remarkable natural experiment in what can happen to wild animals when humans stay home. By Emily Anthes About two decades ago, the dark-eyed junco ...
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Birds at a college changed beak shapes during the pandemic. It might be a case of rapid evolution

(CNN) — Dark-eyed junco songbirds have been serenading the University of California, Los Angeles campus for decades as they forage for food. The species from the sparrow family is not usually found in ...
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Backyard feeders changed the shape of hummingbird beaks, scientists say

A new study suggests that Anna's Hummingbirds in the western United States are not only keeping up with human influence on their habitat, they're thriving. According to a recent study in Global Change ...