What if we see a large bird standing motionless in shallow water and having a long, stout beak built like a Viking’s spear? That’s probably a heron or egret that uses its beak as a spear to ...

We stood breathless watching scores of egrets, herons, spoonbills and other water birds in their elaborate breeding plumage at Houston Audubon’s Smith Oaks Sanctuary in High Island.

Humans and birds have a rich and complex history together. Some birds, like the carrier pigeon or the bald eagle, have ...

An engineering professor and his doctoral student have designed a device based on a shorebird's beak that can accumulate water collected from fog and dew. The device could provide water in drought ...

Since the birds point their beaks downward during the feeding process, gravity must be overcome to get those droplets from the tip of the bird's long beak to its mouth.

An organ that allows some birds to detect the movement of hidden prey by plunging their beaks into the ground seems to have been present in early birds 70 million years ago, and probably first ...

Parrots living in Sydney have learned how to turn on water fountains for a drink. It's the first such drinking strategy seen in the birds.