How does this make more sense? They can't bend their beaks the same way we can bend our thumb and finger
Touch the tip of your index (also known as fore finger)to the tip of your thumb. There is no bending involved and you can generate a decent amount of force and pick things up that way.
If you think this is fucked up, birds have tiny little deformed hands on their wings kind of like how animators will reduce the scale of a bone for a part of a model they want to hide.
I'm sorry I still don't totally understand. I don't mean to be dumb, I just really wish they labeled the different parts.
I looked closely at it, comparing it to the pigeon currently nesting in our windowbox, and I can definitely say they do not look the same.
I just want to know if birds go around thinking, “Crushing your head! Crushing your head!”
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A bunch of birds have prehensile beaks; it just means "grasping". Macaws, parrots, and cockatoos for example.