“The light basically bounces back and forth between the fibrils, instead of reflecting back out—that’s what creates the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. “I feel there is no way to avoid thinking of color when you ...

It is common to say that something is as light as a feather in order to mean that something doesn’t weigh much at all. A ...

The long-held idea that birds living near the equator are more colorful than those living closer to the poles is true, suggests a recent study Paradise Tanager (Tangara chilensis). The sexes look ...

While hiking in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in Siskiyou County near California’s northern border, I came across several colorful birds that were zipping around at high speed to gobble up ...

In preparation for a presentation on the birds we saw while in Ecuador recently, I was struck by how many of the birds were extravagantly colored, many eye-poppingly so. Thumbing through my field ...

Yale ornithologist Richard Prum has spent years studying the molecules and nanostructures that give many bird species their rich colorful plumage, but nothing prepared him for what he found in ...

Birds are some of the most colorful animals on Earth, with a palette of rainbow tones to feast your eyes on. Here are our picks for some of our most flamboyant feathered friends. When you purchase ...

The slaty-masked tinamou, found in Brazil, is utterly unafraid of people. That could be its undoing, ornithologists worry.

The piping plover, a shorebird found in Indiana along Lake Michigan, looks similar to its bigger relative, the killdeer, ...

Birdwatchers on the Cheyenne Big Day Bird Count held May 18 tallied 109 species in the Cheyenne area, including a lot of colorful birds Mark and I had at our backyard feeders during the month of May.

Colorful woodpeckers in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in Siskiyou County will soon have a new name. Matt Witt While hiking in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in Siskiyou County near ...