Among the birds of the world, it is usually the males who have the brightest feathers and the females who are the most drab, ...

More information: Juan Diego Ibáñez‐Álamo et al, Colourful Urban Birds: Bird Species Successful in Urban Environments Have More Elaborate Colours and Less Brown, Ecology Letters (2025). DOI ...

Colorful birds thrive in cities, according to new research. Avian species that do well in urban areas have feathers of a more ...

Never-before-seen colorful bird hybrid surprises scientists. The offspring of a scarlet tanager and rose-breasted grosbeak—distantly related birds whose evolutionary paths diverged 10 million ...

Soon, they'll be airdropped into Maui's high-elevation forests, the last refuge for endangered birds. There were once more than 50 species of Hawaiian honeycreepers, small colorful birds that ...

In the new study, the team built a database of 9,409 species of birds to look at how color spread around the world. The team combed through videos, photographs, ...

And yes, that includes red-winged blackbirds. Of the more than 27,000 published papers analyzed for this study, red-winged blackbirds were the second-most researched species, with an astonishing ...

Some species of birds-of-paradise, which sport colorful, elaborate feathers, likely use biofluorescence to enhance visual cues during courtship displays and territorial disputes, according to a ...

Many colorful species are absent or in dulled-down winter plumage (yes, blue jays and male northern cardinals, we see your defiant exceptions). Song, too, is at a minimum now.

Some species of birds-of-paradise, which sport colorful, elaborate feathers, likely use biofluorescence to enhance visual cues during courtship displays and territorial disputes, according to a ...