In contrast to the pied avocet, the long beak of the Eurasian ... to probe the ground for small lizards and insects. This ...

The study bird, the great tit, Parus major, is a small, common garden bird ... The research teams found that beaks of great tits living in a long-term study site, Wytham Woods in the UK (949 ...

We anxiously await the arrival of the first goldfinches, but hardly anyone searches eagerly for small brown birds with the conical beaks ... and it has a long tail. Named for its pleasant song ...

As Charles Darwin showed nearly 150 years ago, bird beaks ... long noted the unusual feeding behavior of phalaropes, which spin in circles on the water, creating a vortex that sweeps small ...

Some great tits in the United Kingdom are getting long in the beak ... small evolutionary changes may be happening, she says. Bosse and her colleagues compared DNA data from 2,322 birds ...