You wouldn't be alone in thinking a hummingbird's beak - otherwise known as a bill ... with intricate and delicate movements all designed to help lap up and drink the sweet liquid.

do you call a hummingbird's beak? The chamber fell silent and the FM looked, understandably, a mite puzzled. What, we wondered, would be the follow up? Why is a raven like a writing desk?

Next, they inserted the beak with its load of fluorescent pollen into a new set of male and female flowers and tracked where the marked and unmarked pollen particles ended up. The hummingbird ...

Mr Sornoza, who has been studying hummingbirds ... beak which it uses to reach the flowers of the chuquiragua, a shrub also known as the "flower of the Andes" or "flower of true love". It can ...