Birds with Probing beaks Hummingbird Godwit Curlew
Duck Flat, shovel-type beak
Cardinal Short thick beak
Spoonbill Wide spoon-shaped bill
Birds of prey - with strong, sharp, hooked beaks Eagle Owl
Fill in the missing words about birds and their beaks! Many birds have ______ short, stout beaks for cracking open nuts and ______. Sparrows, finches and _______ have beaks of this type, matching their natural diet. Parrots, macaws and their relatives take this to the extreme, and have strong beaks that are capable of cracking open the toughest nuts in the forest. Hummingbirds have ______, thin, tubular beaks that work like ______ _____. This enables the birds to sip nectar from inside _______. ______ beaks are not as elongate as those of Hummingbirds, as they subsist on surface dwelling _______, and do not need such long and thin _______. Eagles and owls have _____________ beaks that they use to remove the flesh of animals. The colorful Australian Spoonbill has a large, ______, spoon shaped beak to scoop up small fish and ________ from _______ water. scissor-like wide tadpoles shallow seeds cardinals long drinking straws flowers Robin worms beaks evolved