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 ...

While no longer rare in San Diego County, the bright red vermilion flycatcher is not yet abundant, but worth the effort to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

A new bird species has been found in India, the first time such a discovery has been made there in more than 50 years, an astronomer and keen bird-watcher said Tuesday. The multicolored bird, Bugun ...

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

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

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 ...