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Strong, sharp and hooked beaks

Flesh-eating birds like eagle, vulture and hawk have
strong, sharp and hooked beaks. These birds are

known as birds of prey. Beaks of such birds help
Strong, sharp and hooked them to catch and kill their prey, and tear the fl esh
beak of an eagle
into small pieces.

Strong and chisel-shaped beaks

Birds like woodpecker and hoopoe have strong, long and
chisel-shaped beaks. Their beaks
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help them to make holes in the
Woodpecker has a very
hard trunk of trees and to pull Strong and chisel-
long tongue with a glue-
out insects from there to eat. like substance on the tip for shaped beak of a
catching the insects. woodpecker

Curved beaks

Parrots have strong curved beaks. Their beaks help them to
crack open seeds and nuts that have hard outer shells, and
Curved beak of
eat the pulp of fruit. Parrots also use their beaks to climb trees.
a parrot

Broad and short beaks

Birds like swallows have broad and short beaks which are
sticky from inside. Swallows keep their beak open while

fl ying to catch small fl ies and insects from the air. The tiny

fl ying insects get stuck to the swallow’s beak and the bird
Broad and short beak
gulps them down.
of a swallow

Long and pointed beaks

Birds like hummingbird and sunbird have thin, long and
pointed beaks. Their beaks help them to suck nectar

Long and pointed beak from fl owers. Birds like heron and kingf isher also have
of a hummingbird long and pointed beaks to pick up f ish from water.

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