The yellow-naped Amazon (Amazona auropalliata) is no exception. These parrots have dark grey beaks, yellow-orange eyes, and green heads with bright yellow feathers on the napes of their necks.

How a simple pleasure, feeding birds, has been translated into a mechanism for rapid evolutionary change in beak length in a British backyard bird species ...

It also helped if they were permanent and not part of the bird’s breeding plumage to be shed later, which ruled out the whydahs. The following are 10 birds who really do have long tails.

Yellow-bellied sapsuckers use their beaks to drill quarter-inch holes into trees’ bark in very neatly spaced rows to feed on the sap.

Long-billed curlew has one of the longest beaks of any shorebird, measuring 4.5-8.6 inches Shoebill stork has the third longest beak of any living bird, measuring up to 24 cm long and 20 cm wide ...

Scientists are one step closer to understanding how modern birds evolved to have beaks, and the answer starts millions of years ago with some of the sexiest dinosaurs. Modern gulls, with their ...

Fossils of an 85 million-year-old seabird feature the earliest known beak, which scientists say is a pivotal link in the evolution of dinosaurs to modern-day birds.

After its discovery more than two decades ago, researchers hypothesized that the bird used its long beak and strong teeth to hunt fish. But no one had ever found a specimen with fossilized fish ...

Geneticist solves long-standing finch beak mystery Bridgett vonHoldt found a single genetic key that unlocked beak size in a central African finch species Date: November 19, 2018 Source: Princeton ...

Some great tits in the United Kingdom are getting long in the beak — and it may have something to do with a British fondness for bird feeders. In other studies, bird beaks have been shown to be ...