History of beaks in birds Birds have beaks, but they're not the only ones. Turtles have them, and so did a bunch of extinct dinosaur groups, but birds are by far the most diverse group of beaked...
Category: Wild Birds
What time do birds build a nest? Nesting behaviour of birds!
No bird gives birth to live young. Instead, birds prepare nests to cradle their eggs and their developing young. Caring first for the eggs and then for the young requires a major commitment of time...
The one feature that sets birds apart from all other animals isn't their bills or wings or that they lay eggs, there are other animals that have or do these things too. What makes birds unique is...
Feathers are essential but delicate structures, so birds spend a good deal of time caring for them. Because the mature feather is a dead structure, it has no circulatory system for internal...
Certain categories of avian colors tend to be produced entirely by pigments, others by structures, and many shades of colors can be produced by combining the two methods. For...
Feathers, the most distinctive feature of avian anatomy, are an extraordinary evolutionary innovation. Collectively referred to as plumage, feathers are the most complex structures to grow out...