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 ...

According to Bird Watching Daily, manakins “are small, active, and colorful like warblers, have elaborate courtship displays that include dancing and gymnastics, and combine a variety of non ...

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, ...

A family tree of 9,409 bird species helped scientists figure out why there are so many colorful birds in the tropics and how these colors spread over time Date: July 26, 2024 Source: Field Museum ...

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 ...

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 ...