In nature, every animal has its own way of adapting to survive. For birds, one of the most important tools they’ve developed ...

The extinct flightless pigeon has captured imaginations for over 400 years. Experts and artists are now revealing how much we ...

It may look gruesome, but shrikes impale their prey to store it and aid in eating. Learn all about this fascinating killer songbird.

Our two pieces of recent research identified that, in response to warming, more than 100 species of Australian birds have developed smaller bodies and bigger beaks over time. Shape-shifting wildlife ...

Smaller finches with less-powerful beaks perished. So the birds that were the winners in the game of natural selection lived to reproduce. The big-beaked finches just happened to be the ones ...

What's more, this rule even describes beak shape in the long-gone ancestors of birds - the dinosaurs. We are excited to share our findings, now published in the journal iScience.. By studying ...

HOUSTON — Residents along Brays Bayou are worried about a bird that has found itself in a precarious situation. The blue heron has trash stuck on its beak, preventing it from eating. Usually ...

Now that Dr. Ortega-Jiménez’s curiosity about flamingo-instigated fluid dynamics has been satisfied, he plans to turn his attention to what is going on inside the birds’ beaks during feeding.

Beak sizes increase, and body sizes decrease - but why? How we are slowly unravelling the mystery behind changing body shapes in Australian birds.