It’s close to a mature turkey in size. It even has the same brilliant red wattles! For a beak, it has a rough and dark 8.5-in ...

Photo by Diane N. Ennis / Adobe Stock A snood is a fleshy, ribbon-like appendage made of skin and erectile tissue that projects from the forehead and dangles down over a turkey’s beak. Erectile tissue ...

Under these drastically changing conditions, the struggle to survive favored the larger birds with deep, strong beaks for opening the hard seeds. Smaller finches with less-powerful beaks perished.