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 ...

The long, sharp beaks of hummingbirds serve a purpose other than probing flowers for nectar, a new study found. Male long-billed hermits, which are large hummingbirds native to Central and South ...

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 ...

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 female brooding eggs not only holds the beak upward but also beyond the edge of the nest, lest it stab through eggshells. A sword-billed hummingbird extracts nectar by probing flowers ...