Probing is one of the most common feeding behaviors among shorebirds. This is when a bird tries to find food by poking its beak around in the mud. Once the touch receptors on the end of the bird ...

By almost any measure, the pigeon is a humble bird. But on Saturday, New York’s unofficial avian emblem and second most hated critter was celebrated on the High Line in Chelsea at a first- (and ...

Such good friends that they were able to convince the director of the soon to be giantest movie evers, The Avengers, to strap on a bird beak. Or maybe he’s always had a bird beak, because he’s ...

Discoveries about evolution have long been intertwined with bird beaks. The huge variety of beak shapes among finches in the Galapagos Islands became emblematic of Charles Darwin’s theory of natural ...