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Smaller finches with less-powerful beaks perished ... Sure enough, the birds best adapted to eat those seeds because of their smaller beaks were the ones that survived and produced the most ...

Because the drought reduced the number of seeds and finches with bigger beaks were able to eat the larger and harder seeds so more of them survived.

With a deadly parasite spreading among Britain's bird population, people are being urged to make a simple change to their gardens.

Unlike the rosy-finches, our grosbeaks remain at the feeder, sit in the midst of the sunflower seeds and eat seeds and spit out shells from the sides of their beaks like little machines.