With a little egg tinkering, scientists replaced a duck’s flat bill with a quail’s pointy beak, breeding some funny-looking birds. But University of California scientists who switched birds’ beaks had ...
Bird beaks have a variety of shapes and purposes. Here are common bird beak types you should look for and how they help birds find food.
WASHINGTON -- Call them "qucks" and "duails." With a little egg tinkering, scientists replaced a duck's flat bill with a quail's pointy beak, breeding some funny-looking birds. But the experiment ...