21 Birds with Long Beaks for Your Bird Watching List ... its crested head in marvelous shades of pink and brown. Wilson’s ...

In contrast to the pied avocet, the long beak of the Eurasian ... to probe the ground for small lizards and insects. This bird with its otherwise ordinary rufous-brown feathers attracts attention ...

Even fewer would have the patience to catch, weigh, measure, and identify hundreds of small birds and record ... survive favored the larger birds with deep, strong beaks for opening the hard ...

The small brown bird weighs around 16 grams (roughly half an ounce) and has black and yellow bands along with a large beak. The finding, which was reported in the science journal Nature ...