2006-12-21 16:56:07 · 15 answers · asked by Ms. Susan 1 in Pets ➔ Birds
Bills are flatter and rounded on the end like the bill of a hat. Beaks are more more rounded on the top and pointier at the end. Ducks have bills. Robins, blue jays, sparrows, ravens all have beaks.
2006-12-21 17:01:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are the same. Usually the term bill is used to describe the large beak of larger birds.
2006-12-22 01:06:44 · answer #2 · answered by chubbysylph 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
'Bill' is another word for beak but is usually used in cases where the beak is slender, flattened, or weak, or belongs to a web-footed bird or a bird of the pigeon family. For some reason that I don't understand, it is also used to refer to the muzzle of a platypus.
2006-12-22 01:06:39 · answer #3 · answered by DrD 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing all birds have bills and beaks its all the same meaning in birds
2006-12-22 01:00:58 · answer #4 · answered by reasonable-sale-lots 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm guessing here but perhaps it has to do with shape. I think a beak is curved and has a sharp end (parrot for example), and a bill is straight and flat (duck).
2006-12-22 00:59:29 · answer #5 · answered by huckleberry 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A beak is hard and its shape is designed to crack nuts. A bill is soft and cannot perform that kind of function. Have a tweet holiday.
2006-12-22 01:07:08 · answer #6 · answered by firestarter 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
bill= cash or nose of a bird...usually a duck
beak= nose of a bird
usually the term bill is more used for ducks/geese and beak for birds.
2006-12-22 00:59:01 · answer #7 · answered by kowalley 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only ducks have bills. All other birds have beaks.
2006-12-22 00:57:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Most waterfowl, ducks geese etc. Have bills. Raptors,parrots,fowl to name a few have beaks........
2006-12-22 01:01:41 · answer #9 · answered by crgcarroll 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The vowels used in the lettering.
2006-12-22 00:58:31 · answer #10 · answered by Him Roy Dull 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋