The bird is a type of woodcreeper that’s found in the forests of South America and makes a living by crawling up tree trunks ...

The new species, Leptostomia begaaensis, used its beak to probe dirt and mud for hidden prey, hunting like present-day sandpipers or kiwis to find worms, crustaceans, and perhaps even small hard ...

The team then found those same patterns in lithornithid fossil beaks, which suggests that lithornithids had the same sensory abilities and were probe-foraging birds. The discovery makes sense ...

While many birds can do that, they typically have short beaks and wide gapes. Hummingbirds, by contrast, have long flower-probing bills and narrow gapes. “It’s like flying around with a pair ...

probing in sand and soil for worms and other buried prey. Sandpipers, too, can be seen along the shore excavating small creatures with their beaks. It was long thought that these birds were using ...

The Ground Finch uses its crushing beak to remove ticks from the backs of tortoises and iguanas. The Woodpecker and Cactus Finch have probing beaks to find grubs in holes and dead tree branches.

The birds use cells hidden inside their beaks to pick up vibrations from the ... have housed those cells have also been found in non-probing birds like ostriches and emus, suggesting they also ...

Robins and bluebirds have similar, albeit differing sized, beaks, placing them in the thrush family that includes wood thrushes and hermit thrushes. Robins walk along the ground to probe for ...

They have upside-down brains, eyes on the backs of their heads, long probing beaks, red breast meat, and white leg meat. Their nicknames—timberdoodle, bog sucker, Labrador twister—are about as ...