Bird Beak Experiment

Have you ever wondered why different species of birds have different types of beaks? Here is a fun bird beak experiment to find out more about birds’ beaks and what the differences mean for the birds.

The feeding habits of each bird species rely on their type of beak. Birds beaks are very specialized tools that determine what birds are able to eat. Some beaks are great for cracking the hard shells of seeds and nuts, while others are better for probing for and grabbing insects.

Now lets test the beaks’ abilities to get the different foods. I wonder what discoveries you will learn?

Possible discoveries:

• The straw is a lot like a hummingbird beak and is perfect for drinking nectar…or juice.

• The scissors are like the beak of an eagle and can tear into the marshmallows like eagles do with meat.

• The chopsticks can dig gummies out the sugar just like robins digging worms out of the ground.

• The tweezers pried colored grains of rice out of a bowl of rice like woodpeckers pry insects out of dead trees.

• The pliers cracked the pistachios open like the powerful beak of a cardinal cracking open seeds.