A pigment that makes feathers and hair orange helps prevent cellular damage by removing excess cysteine from cells.

Have you ever looked at a bird and wondered, how can it be so red or so blue or so intensely yellow? Well, if you have, then you and several researchers have something in common. A new study finds ...

What makes a blue jay blue or a cardinal red? Color, a crucial element in nature, is most evident in the amazing hue and pattern variations in more than 10,000 bird species around the world. How birds ...

Quick Take The northern cardinal secured its place as Indiana’s bird by inhabiting the state year-round. The 1933 legal ...

The Wright Brothers studied bird flight before they designed the first airplane. Now modern aircraft fly higher and faster than any bird, yet no manufactured device matches the graceful movements and ...

Feathers on 37 of 45 birds-of-paradise species emit biofluorescence. The feathers absorb UV light and release it as a ...

ROAD TO RECOVERY WILL BE A LONG ONE. WHEN I FIRST HELD THE BIRD, I NOTICED THAT EVERY SINGLE FEATHER ON BOTH ITS WINGS AND TAILS WERE COMPLETELY SHEARED AND LOOKED TO BE INTENTIONALLY CUT OFF. TAKE A ...

Female tanager birds dig flamboyant males. So to build plumage that really pops with orange or red or yellow, a male has to eat fruits and absorb their carotenoids. The fancy feathers he produces then ...

Explore the colors of songbird migration in a photo essay that displays the ways distance and timing affect plumage. In late summer and autumn, millions of birds fly above our heads, often at night, ...

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 ...