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Top 10 Birds with the most bizarre beaks in the world

In nature, birds are very diverse in color and type. There are many species of birds that are very beautiful because of the color of their feathers, but there are also species that become especially beautiful thanks to the strange parts of their bodies, such as they have strange and valuable beaks. Join us to learn more about these birds with strange beaks.

1. Rhino bird

The rhinoceros bird is also known as the sand-capped hornbill and weighs about 3 kg. These birds have a wingspan of up to 2 m with white and black feathers and a large patch of bare skin around the throat.


A special feature of the blackbird is that it has a lump made of keratin (a type of fibrous protein) extending along the top of the beak to the skull. According to statistics, every year, thousands of birds of this species are killed for their horns and poachers often sell the bird heads to China.


The horns of the rhinoceros are sometimes referred to as "ivory". This is a beautiful material to carve with its smooth surface and golden color due to secretions from oil glands that can create beautiful and valuable jewelry.
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2. Hornbill

Hornbill, also known as Earth Phoenix, is the largest member of the Hornbill family. They live mainly in forests in India, Southeast Asia and southern China. Their large size and impressive colors have contributed to them becoming part of the culture and rituals of several local tribes.


Hornbills have quite a long lifespan, up to 50 years in captivity. They are one of the large birds, can be up to 95 - 120 cm long with a wingspan of up to 152 cm and weigh from 2.15 - 4 kg.


The hornbill's most distinctive feature is the bright yellow and black cap atop its large beak. The hollow keratin beak cap extends from the upper part of the beak to the larval bone, and this cap can account for up to 11% of the bird's body weight. With this species, female hornbills are smaller and have blue eyes instead of red eyes.

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3. Ramphastos Sulfuratus

Ramphastos Sulfuratus birds often live in South American forests, from Mexico to Honduras. This species has a body length of about 50 cm and its eyes are green.


The outstanding feature of the Ramphastos Sulfuratus bird is its large beak, also green, but the edge of the beak is orange and the tip of the beak is slightly crooked red. Their beak looks very large but is actually very light because the inside is spongy. Their fur is usually black and has yellow fur just below the neck.
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4. Flamingo

Flamingos are species that live in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. They usually only stand on one leg and their tongues were considered a treasured dish by the ancient Romans. And miners hunted them because they thought their fat could cure tuberculosis.


When flamingos are born, they have white plumage and later, depending on the food source where they live, their plumage can change from light pink, orange pink or dark red. The pigments of crayfish in the Yucatan, where these flamingos live, give their plumage the color of coral reefs. In particular, the Flamingo has a very large beak, pink at the bottom with a black and curled tip.
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5. Shoebill stork

The shoe-billed stork is a species of bird in the family Balaenicipitidae. This species usually inhabits tropical regions of eastern Africa in large swamps from Susan to Zambia.


Adult shoe-billed storks are 115 - 150 cm tall and 100 - 140 cm long. They have a wingspan of up to 230 - 260 cm and weigh about 4 - 7 kg with an average beak of 30 cm that looks like a wooden shoe. This beak is yellowish with black spots and the end of the beak looks like it has a hook. Adult birds are mainly gray, while juveniles have browner plumage.
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6. Platalea ajaja

Platalea ajaja is a species of bird in the Ibis family. They are a species that breed and settle in South America and mainly east of the Andes, in the coastal regions of the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico and the Gulf of the United States.


The pink spoonbill usually has a length of about 71 - 86 cm, a wingspan of up to 120 - 133 cm and a weight of about 1.2 - 1.8 kg. Adults have a greenish head during their breeding season.
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7. American white pelican

The American white pelican is a species of pelican that breeds in inland North America, moving south to the coasts as far as Central America in winter.


This American white pelican often competes with trumpeter swans and is the longest bird native to North America. This species is very large and plump with an overall length of about 130 - 180 cm, bill length 29 - 39 cm in males and 26 - 36 cm in females. They have a wingspan of about 240 - 300 cm, the second largest wingspan of any North American bird. Their body weight can range from 4.2 - 14 kg and their tarsal bones are about 9.9 - 14 cm long.

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8. Bird scoops black fish

The black fish scooper is a bird belonging to the fish scoop family and is mainly distributed in North America and South America. It is the largest bird of the three fish scoop species. This species is about 40 - 50 cm in length with a wingspan of 107 - 127 cm. They weigh from 212 - 447g, with males weighing about 349g compared to smaller females weighing from 254g.


This black fish scooper has a disproportionate beak with a lower jaw that is longer than the upper jaw. This outstanding adaptation helps them catch fish in a unique way, specifically they will fly quickly and close to the water to observe and then catch their prey. This species often flies very quickly and forms large flocks along rivers and coastal sandbanks.
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9. Fratercula Arctica

The Atlantic puffin, whose scientific name is Fratercula Arctica, is a species of bird in the Alcidae family. This is the only species of albatross native to the Atlantic Ocean. They have two related species, Fratercula cirrhata and Fratercula corniculata, which are also found in the northeastern Pacific.


The only morphological difference between these three subspecies is their size. Their body and wing length and size increase with latitude. For example, the northern subspecies weighs 650g and has a wingspan of 186mm while the Froes subspecies weighs 400g and has a wingspan of 158mm. The subspecies in southern Iceland at mid-latitudes is between the two above subspecies in size.
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10. Bird Numenius americanus

Numenius Americanus is a species of bird in the Scolopacidae family. The outstanding feature of this species is its small and long beak, which makes it convenient to find food in the water.


Usually this species has light brown feathers and a few black feathers above the wings. Their heads and beaks are quite asymmetrical, while their beaks are long and their heads are very small. In addition, they also have long, small legs that run quickly in the water.

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