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Bird Beaks Their Uses
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Tearing Beak
Birds of prey such as the eagle, hawk, falcon,
and owl use their beak to tear their food into
small pieces they can swallow.
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Griffon Vulture
DIET Feeds on large dead mammals, taking only
muscle meat and viscera. Their distended crops
and gizzards can hold over 13 pounds of meat at a
time.
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Hook Beak

• Birds that eat fruit, berries, and vegetables
  have a hooked beak to help them dig into their
  food.

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Yellow-Naped Amazon Parrot
DIET Fruits, seeds, nuts, berries, blossoms,
and probably leaf buds.
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Red-Billed Hornbill
DIET Obtains almost all food on the ground
while running about. Feeds largely on insects -
beetles, grasshoppers, termites, ants, fly
larvae. Also takes geckos, birds' eggs and
nestlings and scavenges dead rodents.
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Chestnut Mandibled Toucan
DIET Primarily fruit and berries, but
supplemented with large insects, small reptiles
and amphibians, as well as the eggs and young of
other birds.
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Blue Yellow Macaw
DIET Seeds, fruits, nuts and probably
vegetable matter.
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Spear-like Beak

• These birds have a beak with serrated edges and a
  hooked tip that helps them catch fish or minnows.
  The heron is such a bird.

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Hammerkop
DIET Hammerkops feed on frogs, fish and
invertebrates.
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Louisiana Heron
DIET fish, crustaceans, and insects using their
beak much like a spear.
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Pelican

• DIET fish

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Crackers Beak

• Many birds that eat seeds must be able to crack
  open the hull that surrounds the seed. Birds such
  as finches and sparrows do this.

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Speckled Pigeon
DIET Mainly a ground feeder. Feeds on seeds
and cultivated grain.
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Sparrow

• DIET seeds with hard shells, sometimes flowers,
  insects, spiders, and berries.

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Tweezers Beak

• Birds that pull worms and insects from the ground
  need tweezers-like beaks.

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American Robin
DIET earthworms, grubs, butterflies, cherries,
and blueberries
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Straw-like Beak

• The hummingbirds beak allow it to sip nectar
  from flowers. Some birds have probing beaks that
  allow them to find food in sand or mud.

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Hummingbird

• DIET nectar

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Filtering Beak

• The bill of a duck is fringed to allow mud and
  water to escape while straining plants, seeds,
  and small animals for it to eat.

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African Spoonbill
DIET Insects, larva, shellfish
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Wood Duck
DIET plants, seeds, grasses and other small
insects and animals that they find on or under
the water.
Aix sponsa
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Lesser Flamingo
DIET Herbivorous, feeding solely on Spirulina
plantensis, one of the blue-green algae growing
within a very limited range of pH 10.4 - 10.5.
They are surface feeders filtering the top inch
or two of water where the spirulina is to be
found with the deep-keeled bill that is
specialized for very fine food particles. They
swim well and are able to forage over the
complete surface of a lake (the "swim and skim"
technique).
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White-Faced Whistling Duck
DIET Invertebrates such as aquatic insects,
mollusks and crustaceans as well as aquatic
plants, seeds and rice. Commonly obtain food by
diving.
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Can you match the beak with the food it catches?