All the season’s colors made the gray mockingbird seem so majestic,” says Birds & Blooms reader Sujata Roy. In addition to ...

If you're hoping to attract more feathered friends to your yard, then you might want to consider painting your porch these ...

Weekend Wildlife: Evening Grosbeak a boldly colored bird that can lift your spirits. By Barb and Joe Rogers, Wildlife Jan 14, 2023. A male, left, and a female Evening Grosbeak.

These birds have brightly colored orange to red beaks, which may act as a signal of health when females are choosing their mate. This trick of our brains is called categorical perception, ...

Their analysis suggests that almost 500 strikingly colored and related bird species are at risk of future trade. Generally, as heavily traded species become rarer and harder to find, people switch ...

Imagine staring out your back window, watching the birds come to your feeder. You see Carolina wrens, Carolina chickadees, and a northern cardinal. Wait, is it a cardinal? You see ...

Certain brightly coloured birds, like kingfishers or parrots, have feathers embedded with a not-quite-random arrangement of air pockets. Wavelengths of light that are related to the distance ...

The animal kingdom gives us rainbows of color with butterflies and chameleons, and clownfish, but birds give us just as much of a show. Among the peacock, the toucan, and the macaw, there’s a ...

Similarly, an analysis of 23 studies showed that across Europe, great tits, small birds with bright-yellow, carotenoid-colored breasts, are paler in cities than in forests.