With its fiery colours and trilling call that echoes through the bush, the crested barbet is a bold little bird that looks ...

Why do humans wear clothes? One reason is that changing outfits allows people to tailor their look in hopes of attracting or ...

KK: For birds, keeping their plumage clean isn’t about good looks or vanity—it’s essential to their health. Feathers are ...

While we are waiting (?patiently?) for spring to really get rolling, here are a few things to think about.

Female White-necked Jacobin with male-like plumage on her nest incubating her eggs. Credit must be given to the creator. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

Purple martins are returning from South America. The first "scouts" have been spotted in Michigan. What to know.

In the United States, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage reached the number one spot at the box office in its twelfth week of release, grossing $727,200 that week. This international success not ...

IT is often considered that the white plumage of gulls, terns, gannets, etc., in temperate climates is in contradiction to the principle of protective and adaptive coloration, and survives only ...

Polytypic. Length 7.8". Sexually dimorphic. Breeding male: the adult male is unmistakable—all bright red—and achieves its brightest plumage by the end of its second calendar year. Breeding ...

On freshly molted birds, black plumage has white spots all over; by winter, spots start to disappear; and by spring, the birds are glossy black all over, with strong suffusions of iridescent pinks ...

In 1889 in the foothills of Mount Tuscolo, 25km south-east of Rome, farm workers discovered something extraordinary. While ...