Meet the Aki, the Hawaiian bird with a ‘Frankensteined’ beak
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This bird was built for drilling. What’s small, winged, and slams its beak into trees? If you said a woodpecker, you’re not entirely wrong. But woodpeckers don’t live in Hawaii, where biologists are investigating a curious bird that takes up a similar ecological niche—with its own unique twist. Meet …
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