For a brief period during the pandemic, cities slowed down in ways rarely seen. Streets emptied, food waste declined, and ...

If you want a fun learning experience, watch the birds at your feeders. Notice the different types of beaks and how their shapes dictate a bird’s dining habits — particularly the way it consumes black ...

A new study suggests that beak morphology in several urban bird species shifted rapidly during the COVID‑19 pandemic, likely in response to changes in food availability and human activity during ...

The researchers came across this discovery through the use of picocam, a 3D-modeling technology that Mansfield developed, ...

Bird beaks come in almost every shape and size—from the straw-like beak of a hummingbird to the slicing, knife-like beak of an eagle. We have found, however, that this incredible diversity is ...

When looking at different types of shorebirds, one of the first things that may strike you is how different each of their beaks looks. Shorebirds have evolved different beak shapes and feeding ...

Scientists simulated how drought conditions could change the song of Darwin’s medium ground finches by digitally modifying recordings to mimic what would happen as their beaks grew larger over ...

Parrots don’t just hang out for fun. To move along narrow branches, a parrot can hang from a branch with its beak, swing its body sideways and grab hold farther along with its feet. The newly ...