The beaks of albatrosses and penguins, compared to other, “normal” beaks (examples shown of a petrel and a gull) and a bird with a tactile bill-tip organ (a tinamou, close relative of ...

They start as a downy ball of fluff on a remote New Zealand island. Then they fledge across the Pacific. Only a handful have ever been found again.

One of the rarest seabirds, a European Storm Petrel, was spotted in Israel on Tuesday on the shore of Mikhmoret by ornithologist Ofek Kirshenbaum from the Emek Hefer Bird Research Station – KKL ...

The Hawaiian petrel is an endangered seabird that resides in the central subtropical Pacific Ocean and is known to breed only within the major Hawaiian Islands. This mysterious, rarely seen petrel is ...

The Fiji petrel is one of the world's rarest and most elusive birds. First known from just one immature specimen collected in 1855 on Gau Island, Fiji by naturalist John MacGillivray, the species went ...

When a picture posted on social media in 2015 showed a live albatross with the top half of its beak sliced clean off ... injuries that albatrosses and petrels are enduring at the hands of the ...

the pale beak, a black eye staring back at me. This is a black petrel, a tākoketai - a seagull-sized bird that only nests in New Zealand. Once found across the North Island and near Nelson ...