beak, bill, or rostrum is an external anatomical structure found mostly in birds, but also in turtles, non-avian dinosaurs and a few mammals. A beak is...
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Beak are an English experimental electronic rock music band formed in 2007. Until September 2024, the band comprised Geoff Barrow (of Portishead), Billy...
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Beak trimming (also spelled as beak-trimming; informally as debeaking), or beak conditioning, is the partial removal of the beak of poultry, especially...
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Crossed beak, also known as cross beak and scissor beak, is a congenital deformity in birds, particularly poultry, where the upper and lower parts of...
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Beak 2 (stylized >> or Beak>>) is the second studio album by the British band Beak, released on 2 July 2012. Matt Williams — guitars, organ, synthesizers...
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Mesoplodon (redirect from Deep-crested Beaked Whale)
Two species were described as recently as 1991 (pygmy beaked whale) and 2002 (Perrin's beaked whale), and marine biologists predict the discovery of...
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Look up beak in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A beak is an anatomical structure of birds and turtles, serving as the mouth and jaws. Beak may also refer...
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Plague doctor costume (redirect from Beak doctor costume)
had glass openings for the eyes and a curved beak shaped like a bird's beak with straps that held the beak in front of the doctor's nose. The mask had...
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Beak 3 (stylized as >>> or Beak>>>) is the third studio album by British band Beak. It was released on 21 September 2018 under Temporary Residence Limited...
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Parrot's beak may refer to: Clianthus, a genus of flowering plants of New Zealand Lotus berthelotii, a perennial plant endemic to the Canary Islands Heliconia...
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Major General Daniel Marcus William Beak, VC, DSO, MC & Bar (27 Jan 1891 – 3 May 1967) was a British Army officer and an English recipient of the Victoria...
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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (ISBN 0-679-40003-6) is a 1994 nonfiction book about evolutionary biology, written by Jonathan...
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The beak may also be referred to as the mandibles or jaws. These beaks are different from bird beaks because they crush bone while most bird beaks do not...
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Aquiline nose (redirect from Beak nose)
from the Latin word aquilinus ("eagle-like"), an allusion to the curved beak of an eagle. While some have ascribed the aquiline nose to specific ethnic...
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Hatebeak (redirect from Beak of Putrefaction)
2024) Beak of Putrefaction split with Longmont Potion Castle (2004) Bird Seeds of Vengeance split with Caninus (2005) The Thing That Should Not Beak split...
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Beak (stylized BEAK> and also named Recordings 05/01/09 > 17/01/09) is the self-titled debut studio album by British band Beak>, released by the label...
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The beak of the toco toucan is integral to their vital social, feeding, foraging, and nest building behaviors. Since the toucan beak does not fully regenerate...
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Plague doctor (redirect from Beak doctor)
openings for the eyes and a curved leather beak, shaped like a bird's beak, with straps that held the beak in front of the doctor's nose. The mask had...
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Harvey Beaks is an American animated television series created by C. H. Greenblatt for Nickelodeon. The series follows a friendly blue bird named Harvey...
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Chile de árbol (redirect from Bird's beak chile)
from tree') is a small and potent Mexican chili pepper also known as bird's beak chile and rat's tail chile. These chilis are about 5 to 7.5 cm (2.0 to 3...
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Psittacine beak and feather disease (PBFD) is a viral disease affecting all Old World and New World parrots. The causative virus—beak and feather disease...
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classic example of adaptive radiation and for their remarkable diversity in beak form and function. They are often classified as the subfamily Geospizinae...
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Beaked whales (systematic name Ziphiidae) are a family of cetaceans noted as being one of the least-known groups of mammals because of their deep-sea habitat...
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Chloropyron maritimum (redirect from Point Reyes bird's beak)
America. It is known by the common names saltmarsh bird's beak and Point Reyes bird's beak, depending on the specific subspecies. It was formerly classified...
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The Turtle Beak mansion (觜宿, pinyin: Zī Xiù) is one of the twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations. It is one of the western mansions of the...
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Cuvier's beaked whale, goose-beaked whale, or ziphius (Ziphius cavirostris) is the most widely distributed of all beaked whales in the family Ziphiidae...
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Beak & Claw is the debut EP by Sisyphus (released under the name S / S / S), a collaborative project between Serengeti, Sufjan Stevens, and Son Lux. It...
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Beaks: The Movie (Spanish: El ataque de los pájaros, "The Attack of the Birds") is a 1987 English-language Mexican horror film written, produced and directed...
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Shepherd's beaked whale (Tasmacetus shepherdi), also commonly called Tasman's beaked whale or simply the Tasman whale, is a cetacean of the family Ziphiidae...
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Beak Street is a street in Soho, London, that runs roughly east–west between Regent Street and Lexington Street. On its south side, Beak Street is joined...
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