Some of our avian companions possess unique beaks. Birds like Rhinoceros Hornbill and Shoebill Stork have some of the most ...

Which beak movements are involved in such a sophisticated task? How fast does the beak move? To answer these questions, I'm recording high-speed X-ray videos of the feeding birds. Interestingly, I ...

Birds-of-paradise have some of the most famous mating displays in the world, but there's more to their colorful rhythmic ...

Bird beaks come in all shapes and sizes, and through observing those differences we can learn a lot about them. Our education ...

Biermann, W. H., and Voous, K. H., Birds Observed and Collected during the Whaling Expeditions of the Willem Barendsz in the Antarctic (1946–1947 and 1947–48).

But why is a barred owl more of a baritone, while a cedar waxwing is a soprano? And what influences a bird’s vocal range, and the kinds of sounds it can make? Beak size? Body size? Geography? To ...

A newly analysed fossil skull settles a palaeontological debate over Vegavis iaai, confirming it as a relative of ducks and geese that lived 69 million years ago ...