Birds come in a wide variety of colors. Some feature relatively dull plumage, while others sport brightly colored feathers.

Birds are some of the ... green crest and metallic-blue tail feathers that grow during the breeding season to form a flowing train up to 3 feet (0.9 meter) long. They show off this train by ...

Tropical birds are famous for ... The resplendent quetzal has bright green feathers and a scarlet chest. It’s known for its unusually long tail feathers, which are in various dark green shades.

Birds tend to be more colorful in the tropics, and scientists wanted to find out how they got there: if colorful feathers evolved in the tropics, or if tropical ... have long been puzzled about ...

This bird is found primarily in the tropical forests of New Guinea and ... The males perform courtship dances, moving their beautiful long tail feathers to show off their plumage.

Take, for example, the Resplendent Quetzal, a small, colorful bird native to the cloud forests of Mexico and Central America with tail feathers that can grow up to three feet long on males during ...

07 February 2011 Long tailed-tits are some of the best nest builders in Wales with some nests containing up to 2,000 feather inside. In this clip from Iolo's Secret Life of Birds(December 2010 on ...

This is a type of bird that lives in the neotropics of what is now Guatemala. Adult males grow two or three long, upper-tail, covert feathers that are this emerald green that also shades into gold or ...