Otto: These birds have the right tools for the job
Any handyman will tell you that having the right tools will make a job go a heck of a lot easier.
Birds, I’ll bet, would say the same thing.
A hawk’s beak is wonderfully adapted to eating meat; a hummingbird’s long, slender bill is exactly what’s needed for sipping nectar – and plucking tiny insects. Finches are primarily seedeaters, as indicated by their heavy, crunching-style beaks.
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