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It is affected by its shape due to what exactly the bird can eat. Shovelers

use their spatula-shaped bills to filter food from mud & water. Eagles

(and hawks) are diurnal raptors & use their hook-like bills to tear apart large prey.

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βˆ™ 15y ago

The shape of a birds beak is usually each designed for a specific purpose to help it survive in it's habitat, usually to match it's diet. For example, a toucans beak is long and jagged to help it crack nuts open, and a hummingbirds beak is skinny and long to stick into flowers. A bird of prey like and eagle or owl would have that sharp hooked beak to tear into flesh, and a herons beak is long skinny and sharp to stab fish and other food.

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βˆ™ 11y ago

The beak affect what it eats by the beak being able to do certain stuff, like some beaks are for cracking nuts and so on.

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βˆ™ 12y ago

If the birds beak is short. It means that the birds eat nuts. If the bird's beak is narrow then it means it eats worms,

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βˆ™ 13y ago

Genetic traits of the particular species. Natural habitat,mode and type of food habits.

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