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

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 ...

On bird walks around Sunriver Nature Center we occasionally spot a very small ... brown upperparts, a reddish-brown tail and whitish underparts, which are usually against a tree trunk. They have ...

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 ...