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 ...

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 ...

In 2006, the American Ornithologists’ Union (AOU) took a closer look at the western bird known as the “blue grouse”and reclassified it into two separate species: the sooty grouse and the dusky grouse.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When most people picture an egg, they imagine the familiar white shell laid by a chicken. But in the wild, eggs come in a ...

A beautiful birdbath is a great way to entice some lovely birds to your yard, but you need to get the right color birdbath.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some species of birds-of-paradise, which sport colorful, elaborate feathers, likely use biofluorescence to enhance visual cues ...