These meat-eating birds, have sharp, hooked beaks that pierce, pluck and pull, allowing them to tear up their meals. Without this beak shape, raptors wouldnt be able to tear their meat into bite ...

Its bizarre beak makes more sense upside down ... imagine for the future are mental constructions that birds can do without. Birds live squarely in the present. And at present, although our ...

“The Tecopa bird’s beak is a precious symbol of the vibrancy of desert wetlands ... “As tough as it is, this resilient species can’t survive without water. The combined pressures of agriculture and ...

Under these drastically changing conditions, the struggle to survive favored the larger birds with deep, strong beaks for opening the hard seeds. Smaller finches with less-powerful beaks perished.