Just below his eyes is a yellow beak that opens and closes as it speaks.
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It is hoped her new beak will help her lead a normal life - if it works.
The tortoise raised its wormy head and fixed him with an old eye above its nostriled beak.
Numerous other dodo parts were also unearthed, such as skull fragments, beak bones, vertebrae, wing bones and toe bones.
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It had a parrot-like beak with two stabbing canines at the front and tall teeth tucked behind for slicing plants.
Though we were all a little concerned about a sharp beak coming at us full throttle, Mr. Burdett assuaged our fears.
With their orange, duck-like feet, black-and-white penguin body and bright red, parrot-like beak, puffins have an irresistible charm, despite their ridiculous appearance when airborne.
The vet has tried the procedure before but last time the glue took too long to dry and the beak fell off.
And on the 500-peso notes, designers gave the island's famous blue-naped parrot a yellow beak, instead of the red beak that Mother Nature gave it.
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"We had rescued hens whose beaks had re-grown, but they were deformed like scissors - where the top beak grows off to one side, " she said.
You can "build your own bird" by selecting at various stations body shape, wing shape and span, beak and song, and then see whether it will actually fly.
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Of course, it has only one beak (albeit a bigger one than that of a warbler chick), but it can cheep as much as it chooses.
Actually, it is two signals: the amount of cheeping and the total area of gaping beak that is visible, regardless of how many beaks it is distributed between.
Outside Wirathu's office at the New Ma Soe Yein monastery hangs a large poster of him gazing heavenward next to a dove with an olive branch in its beak.
The Ornithomimids - from the Latin for "bird mimics" - superficially resembled modern-day ostriches, with a toothless beak, large eyes and long legs, but they also had a long, thick tail.
He opened the coop and stuck his hand in toward the fierce creature inside, eyes yellow, beak sharp as a cat's claw, trilling a warning so low it was almost a growl.
The tronador (whip) they carry and their masks emphasize this role, the latter characterized by accentuated noses that evoke the beak of the condor, creature that represents the spirit of the sacred mountains.
Evans continued his fine performance with two more successful penalties after the beak, with Vesty replying for Bath in between, as the second half began to get niggly with a number of flare-ups.
But when the puffins get used to human presence, they return to their normal routine, landing close by, their beaks brimming with slivers of transparent- and silver-covered food that contrast brilliantly with the bright red of the beak.
He would sit on the porch, a cup of Red Diamond coffee on the rail, and stroke its beak, cooing to it, as if he wanted it to understand the awful sacrifice he was asking it to make.
With two porthole windows that look like eyes set just above four small red tile awnings that look like a beak, two wings and a tail, the architecture of the nondenominational church in the city of Madeira Beach uncannily resembles a cartoon chicken.
But after a lifeboat rescue, the endearing creature - which looks like a giant head, and has a parrot-like beak, no tail and two giant dorsal fins - is settling down to life at the Blue Planet Aquarium in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire.
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