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, their legs, their feet and all the behaviors they use just to effectively ...

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 ...

A new study details the evolutionary change of Anna's Hummingbirds, finding their beaks have grown longer and more tapered to ...

It is endowed with birds that have beautiful covers of feathers on their bodies and perform unmissable courtship dances. But the vibrant and colourful beaks are one among those features that often ...

A new study has found that birds were raising their young in the Arctic seventy-three million years ago, much earlier than ...

Their beaks and legs become more pronounced, and feathers begin to grow in, usually as soft, downy feathers that can be yellow or white in color. In either stage, if you find a bird on the ground ...

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