Many bird enthusiasts like to hang bright red feeders filled with homemade sugar water to attract hummingbirds to their ...

New research illustrates how flamingos use their necks and beaks to create a vortex in the water to trap and slurp up their ...

“Flamingos are super-specialized animals for filter feeding,” Ortega Jiménez said. “It’s not just the head, but the neck, ...

A new study suggests the use and prevalence of hummingbird feeders — like those red and clear plastic ones filled with ...

Rather than passively filter-feeding, the birds use their heads, beaks and feet to generate motion in the water that funnels ...

Birds now live all over the world and their beaks are adapted to each place in very special ways. We see beak shapes for eating fruit, netting insects, piercing and tearing meat, and even sipping ...

Since the birds point their beaks downward during the feeding process, gravity must be overcome to get those droplets from the tip of the bird's long beak to its mouth. Until now, scientists have ...

During their spring migration, billions of birds fly from their southern wintering habitats. After the spring breeding season ends and as fall and winter ...

Black-winged white stilts wade through a salt pan, plunging their beaks into the water in search for food at the Kalloni bay ...

A new study suggests that Anna's Hummingbirds in the western United States are not only keeping up with human influence on their habitat ... and shape of the birds' beaks. The range of the ...