Birds make beautiful chirping songs, but have you ever seen them make music with their wings? That is one of the skills of the club-winged manakin! These birds make music with their wings by vibrating ...

Kim Bostwick loves slow-motion instant replay. Not because she’s a huge sports fan, but because special high-speed video cameras have allowed her to solve a long-standing mystery: how unusual ...

If something exists in nature, there is most likely a very good reason for it. While there are exceptions, many features "selected" by evolution serve a purpose. Take the blue manakin, a small bird ...

McDonald, D.B. 1993. Ethol. 94: 31-45. Lek-mating male long-tailed manakins (Chiroxiphia linearis) move through three distinct, unambiguously age-specific, predefinitive (subadult) plumages, and do ...

The incredible song-and-dance routine of the club-winged manakin bird is seen in all its glory in a video posted by The Field Museum. A native of South America, this bird flaps its ridged wings at an ...

It turns out that the late Michael Jackson wasn't the only one who can moonwalk: Photographer Tim Laman captured a manakin (it's a tropical bird, not a life-size doll) busting a remarkably similar ...

The scientists then examined feathers from the heads of golden-crowned males under an electron microscope. They found that the manakin’s warm crown comes from pigments called carotenoids, which the ...