Larger Beaks Help Birds Beat the Heat | 80beats
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Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Building New Life in a Lab May Succeed Before We Find It Among the Stars Powerful Magnetic Waves Help Make Sun’s Atmosphere Hotter Than Sun Itself Larger Beaks Help Birds Beat the Heat The marsh-loving song sparrow uses its beak to stay . cool What’s the : News Scientists have long known that the size and shape of a bird’s beak is largely dependent on its diet . A hummingbird s long , thin beak , for example , allows it to reach deep down into a tubular flower to get nectar . But in a new study in the journal Ecography scientists have found that birds in warm climates have evolved beaks larger than their