Cloaked in color: Research finds some female hummingbirds evolve male plumage to dodge aggression
Why do humans wear clothes? One reason is that changing outfits allows people to tailor their look in hopes of attracting or ...
PetMojo on MSN2d
Why Are Some Birds So Brightly Colored?
When it comes to the most beautiful animals on Earth, there are many out there who would say birds are one of the best ...
Rare creature — with feathers of ‘fire’ — captured on trail camera in Malaysia. See it
Recently, a trail camera set up in a Malaysia reserve captured one of the rare, colorful creatures during surveys, according ...
National Audubon Society7d
Ask Kenn: How Do Birds Keep Themselves Clean?
KK: For birds, keeping their plumage clean isn’t about good looks or vanity—it’s essential to their health. Feathers are ...
EurekAlert!9d
Female White-necked Jacobin with male-like plumage on her nest incubating her eggs. (IMAGE)
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 ...
Nature1mon
White Plumage of Sea-Birds
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 ...
National Geographic news3y
Summer Tanager
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 ...
National Geographic news4y
European Starling
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 ...