A bird beak is the most important resource it has, and every species has one solely designed for survival. Birds use beaks for just about everything: building nests, feeding their young ...

The struggle is mainly about food -- different types of seeds -- and the availability ... the struggle to survive favored the larger birds with deep, strong beaks for opening the hard seeds.

Here are ten birds, or types of birds with some of the world’s longest beaks. These birds evolved to wade in water and spear their prey, so they not only have some of the world’s longest beaks ...

What do these birds have in common? Very little, judging from their specialized beaks, body types, and behaviors. Yet close examination and molecular analyses reveal otherwise. Each is a member of ...

In particular, changes to the size and shape of the beaks have enabled the different species to specialise in different types of food: seeds, insects, cactus flowers and fruits or even bird blood. The ...