Perhaps you've read the Ogden Nash limerick about "that wonderful bird the pelican" whose "bill can hold more than his belican." The American white pelican, a species that nests in Minnesota, has a ...

Nature is red of tooth and claw, as the old saying goes. But also, it is red of beak, as the skillful predatory instincts of so many bird species prove. When one thinks of ruthless avian hunters, the ...