Not all brightly colored birds are in the tropics. The U.S. has its own fair share of colorful avian friends and you can even ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A black-backed dwarf kingfisher sitting on a branch. Nature produces some truly extravagant costumes, and birds have evolved more ...

(BPT) - Sparrows to doves, mockingbirds to magpies, every bird that visits your backyard this season will bring its unique brand of delight. Yet when a particularly colorful species shows up, you ...

Almost 200 years after Charles Darwin’s groundbreaking trip to the Galápagos islands, a graduate student from San Francisco ...

“I feel there is no way to avoid thinking of color when you think of hummingbirds”, said Gabriela Venable, who is the lead author of the newly published study of hummingbird color (ref). “We give them ...

How rare a Gouldian Finch ? Gouldian Finches are Australia's most spectacularly colored grass finches, and are perhaps the ...

Birds see a more colorful world than we do, especially when it comes to their eggs, a new study suggests. Unlike humans, birds can see ultraviolet (UV) light, and they have four rather than three ...

Out in the Pacific Ocean, 620 miles off the coast of Ecuador, lies a chain of volcanic islands that harbor some of the most diverse and unique animal species on the entire planet. The Galapagos ...

There are numerous birds that are with us only for the spring and summer months, including the swallows and several warblers that I’ve recently discussed. Today, I’d like to talk about three more ...