Showing posts with label Hawk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hawk. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Beaks Vs. Bills

For a very long time I have been wondering what the differences is between Beaks and Bills.
 But at long last I have found out.
 A Beak is sharp much like that of a Hawk. And a duck has a Bill flattish and often looks rather rubbery.
 Birds of the water have Bills and the others have Beaks!
Bills are most commonly used for scooping up small fish and other stuff from under the water. (This is why ducks and other water birds have them.)
 Beaks are used for cracking nuts and catching prey.
What do you think this bird has? A bead or a Bill.
So there you have it. The difference between BEAKS and BILLS.

Friday, July 1, 2011

Bird's Bills

I am super sorry that I haven't done a post in so long but we have been really busy and then today I finally got a chance to get on the computer and I realized how long it had been since my last post.

We got a book once and it was about a little girl. And the whole book is a play on words. But my favorite part is when the girl is quoting her daddy and says: 'Daddy says all we get in the mail are big bills.'
  And it's a picture of a bunch of big birds with their bills in the mail box.

 GOD Created each birds bill in a unique way but suited to the birds habits.

 So that is some on all the amazing different of beaks.

 I am trying to find the difference between Beaks and Bills.
For instance a Wood-Pecker has a thin sharp beak that allows it to hammer through the wood of trees to get out insects.



 Birds like the Parrots and Parakeets have short strong beaks useful for cracking nuts and things like that.


A Heron uses her long thin beak to spear fish and to get down in the wet muddy sand to dig out bugs and worms that live down there.
A Pink Flamingo has strainers on the sides of it's bill that allow it to scoop up a mouth full of small bugs from off the bottom of a stream and then let all the water and mud drain out.

  
 
The Spoon Bill has a strange spoon like bill and uses it like a spoon to scoop up it's food.


A Hawk or a Bald Eagle has a long sharp beak that it uses to kill it's prey.