Beaks in a sentence

Those with short beaks are better adapted to eating seeds on the ground, those with thin, sharp beaks eat insects, and those with long beaks use their beaks to probe for food inside cacti.

Although birds do not have teeth, swans have beaks with serrated edges that look like small jagged 'teeth' as part of their beaks used for catching and eating aquatic plants and algae, but also molluscs, small fish, frogs and worms.

Slender beaks were found on the finches which found insects to be the best source of food on the island they inhabited; their slender beaks allowed the birds to be better equipped for pulling out the insects from their tiny hiding places.

There are concerns about hummingbirds and orioles having different sized beaks, and asking if they will share feeders.

They do that to clean their beaks by rubbing them on a branch or any other surface from side to tip of the beak.

While their prey hangs in their beaks, they shake them to break their spines before gulping them down.

Although nematodes populations increased quickly, researchers didn’t find nematodes passing through the gut. The thought was that if birds are spreading nematodes, it’s happening outside their bodies on feathers, talons and beaks.

As soon as the snow melts, these seeds are ready for hungry beaks to dig out.

The slender, glossy black birds, grow to around 40cm (16in) have large beaks and lighter grey “collar”.

They do this using a hard pointed area on their beaks, called the ‘egg tooth’.

FA disciplinary beaks are ready to throw the book at the 34-year-old who is set to be charged with an “aggravated breach” of Rule E3 (2) by his Twitter comments.

In the Rito's first appearance, they were vastly different than the anthropomorphic bird people found in features a primarily humanoid race with occasional avian features such as beaks, talons, and wings.

There are birds with straw and building materials for nests in their beaks and sipping water from the birdbath.

They mate for life and their beaks are used as very dangerous weapons.

Choughs circle overhead, their bright red legs and beaks prominent against their black feathers.

In fact, the stomach of this animal contained almost exclusively beaks of squid, which Wild believes were magister armhook squid and have been seen in large quantities by fishermen in Lynn Canal.

Others have their beaks and claws mutilated before being force-fed in tiny cages to fatten their livers to make the expensive delicacy.

Their beaks and toes were clipped to prevent stress-induced aggression.

This includes forms of tool use – dolphins have breaking off marine sponges to protect their beaks as they go rooting around for fish, like a person might put a glove over a hand.

Two stick-legged whimbrels plunge their long curved beaks into the sand, hunting for crabs.