Jonathan Snyder sent a pretty portrait of a snowy egret on a branch at Pleasure House Point. Notice its black beak and its yellow feet in contrast to the yellow beak and black feet of the great egret.

Birds are admired for their beauty, songs and flight. But in the wild a beak is far more than a feeding tool as it is a ...

"Feed the birds, tuppence a bag!" In the 1964 musical film "Mary Poppins," a poignant tune described a London woman who sold bread crumbs to feed the pigeons flocking at her feet. Feeding wild birds ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Cornell researchers have quantified what makes the New Caledonian crow's beak different and how it got that way. Their findings were published March 9, 2016 in the journal Scientific Reports. It was ...