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#beaks — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #beaks, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, v1. Tab 74 (1731) by Mark Catesby.

    Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library

    Available to buy as a print.

    pdimagearchive.org/images/cacb

    #beaks #birds #trees #art #publicdomain

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    #Squids #SquidFacts #Beaks

  3. Thick ones, pointy ones—how #albatross #beaks evolved to match their prey
    phys.org/news/2023-08-thick-po #Birds #Evolution #Science #Discovery #SeaBirds #Albatrosses

    Intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of shape variation in the albatross compound bill royalsocietypublishing.org/doi

    "albatross species evolved different beak shapes to make the most of the #ocean's food resources. These species have adapted to different #seafood diets."