Bogue: California thrashers seen courting in local backyard - San Jose Mercury News

Bogue: California thrashers seen courting in local backyard
San Jose Mercury News
Dear Hans: Thrashers are neat, ground-feeding birds who use their long, curved beaks to gobble up insects, spiders, small reptiles and berries. They also use those curved beaks to dig in the dirt for bugs. Breeding season is February through June and ...

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California Pelican With Bent Beak Survives First-of-its-Kind Surgery - ABC News (blog)


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California Pelican With Bent Beak Survives First-of-its-Kind Surgery
ABC News (blog)
A California pelican with life-threatening injuries and a bent beak has made a remarkable recovery after first-of-its-kind surgery. Just a week ago the American White Pelican, nicknamed Nigel, was struggling to stay alive after he had become tangled in ...
California Pelican's Bent Beak Bent No More Thanks to First Emergency Surgery OC Weekly (blog)

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Forget about rhino horn, try pigeon beak - Independent Online


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Forget about rhino horn, try pigeon beak
Independent Online
While browsing an underground website which I will not name, I came across a controversial Serbian study into the aphrodisiac qualities of pigeon beaks. Apparently, scientists discovered that pigeon beaks could be used to make hard-on medicine after ...

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Pufferfish at the 'Beak' of Evolution: Why Humans Don't Continuously Replace ... - Science Daily (press release)

Pufferfish at the 'Beak' of Evolution: Why Humans Don't Continuously Replace ...
Science Daily (press release)
New research focusing on tooth development in the deadly fish -unchanged through evolution -- shows that after the first generation of teeth the programme for continued tooth replacement modifies to form a distinctive and unusual `parrot like´ beak.

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Beak straightening: pelican plastic surgery? - OCRegister

Beak straightening: pelican plastic surgery?
OCRegister
A pelican with a life-threatening beak deformity emerged from a successful, first-of-its kind surgical procedure Sunday, and is now gulping fish at a furious rate as it recovers in Huntington Beach. 50% off! $15 for $30 of Food and Drink at Antoine's ...

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How the pufferfish got its beak - Phys.Org

How the pufferfish got its beak
Phys.Org
The 'beak' of pufferfishes is a unique dental structure and Natural History Museum scientists have helped uncover how it is formed. The origin of the unusual beak of pufferfishes has been discovered, giving new clues about how such unique structures ...

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Garage Becomes a Maternity Ward - Patch.com

Garage Becomes a Maternity Ward
Patch.com
The wren spent about two weeks flying in and out of the garage, holding tightly in her beak additional stems and debris to add to her nest. My husband putters around in the garage daily, but the little wren quickly grew accustomed to his presence.

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Parrot fashion: the controversial cichlid - Swell UK


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Parrot fashion: the controversial cichlid
Swell UK
Parrot cichlids are a controversial but somewhat popular hybrid with a strange beak-like mouth and a parrot shaped body. Parrot cichlids (no scientific name) are a hybrid that were bred in Taiwan in the 1980s. It is possible they were bred from a Midas ...

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Vandalism fury - Wigan Today


Wigan Today
Vandalism fury
Wigan Today
The beak was deliberately snapped off a giant wooden kingfisher, which has been erected in Bottling Wood along the River Douglas nature trail. Police and a local school are investigating after a witness claimed to have seen the act of criminal damage's ...

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Duck's beak reattached - The Dominion Post


The Dominion Post
Duck's beak reattached
The Dominion Post
LATEST: Kapiti SPCA surgically re-attached a duck's beak after it turned up on an Otaki good samaritan's doorstep with the freak injury. SPCA vet John Hewitt said the duck's bottom beak was torn off and broken on its right side - leaving its tongue ...

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