• The tronador (whip) they carry and their masks emphasize this role, the latter characterized by accentuated noses that evoke the beak of the condor, creature that represents the spirit of the sacred mountains.

    UNESCO: Culture

  • And on the 500-peso notes, designers gave the island's famous blue-naped parrot a yellow beak, instead of the red beak that Mother Nature gave it.

    WSJ: Canada's New Banknotes Strike Some as Loonie

  • Actually, it is two signals: the amount of cheeping and the total area of gaping beak that is visible, regardless of how many beaks it is distributed between.

    ECONOMIST: Bird-brained | The

  • But when the puffins get used to human presence, they return to their normal routine, landing close by, their beaks brimming with slivers of transparent- and silver-covered food that contrast brilliantly with the bright red of the beak.

    BBC: Nature��s biggest treasure hunt

  • Of course, it has only one beak (albeit a bigger one than that of a warbler chick), but it can cheep as much as it chooses.

    ECONOMIST: Bird-brained | The

  • With two porthole windows that look like eyes set just above four small red tile awnings that look like a beak, two wings and a tail, the architecture of the nondenominational church in the city of Madeira Beach uncannily resembles a cartoon chicken.

    BBC: Florida's chicken church

  • He would sit on the porch, a cup of Red Diamond coffee on the rail, and stroke its beak, cooing to it, as if he wanted it to understand the awful sacrifice he was asking it to make.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'The Prince of Frogtown'

  • In the Parrot's Beak in West Africa, help for refugees and displaced people depends on the goodwill of at least three governments and one rebel group.

    ECONOMIST: DISPLACED PEOPLE: When is a refugee not a refugee? | The

  • Outside Wirathu's office at the New Ma Soe Yein monastery hangs a large poster of him gazing heavenward next to a dove with an olive branch in its beak.

    NPR: PORTRAITS: New Numerology Of Hate Grows In Myanmar

  • Evans continued his fine performance with two more successful penalties after the beak, with Vesty replying for Bath in between, as the second half began to get niggly with a number of flare-ups.

    BBC: Bath 13-26 Harlequins

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