American white pelican has a large, heavy beak that's yellow-orange in color. Besides catching fish, pelicans use their bills to get rid of excess salt ...
The bottom part of the bird's beak is long and curves upwards, while it appears to have a shorter than normal top part to its beak. It has been visiting a bird table filled with food by Nairn ...
"It shows us what the first bird beak looked like," said Bhart-Anjan Bhullar of Yale University, a study researcher. "It's a real mosaic of features, a transitional form." It has long been known ...
With its fiery-red body, quick black wings, and long, curved, salmon-colored bill, the 'i'iwi — or scarlet Hawaiian honeycreeper — is one of the most recognizable birds of Hawaii. But although it was ...