Flying through the jungles of Papau New Guinea, two brightly colored bird species carried a secret. More accurate, the birds carried a poison — a toxin emanating from their feathers and seeping from ...

Simon Griffith receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Birds are perhaps the most colourful group of animals, bringing a splash of colour to the natural world around us every day.

On the open savannas of East Africa, a flock of vulturine guinea fowl looks almost unreal. Bodies are patterned with crisp ...

Six years ago, an Alabama photographer’s photos of a rare yellow cardinal captivated the nation on numerous national news outlets after being first reported on AL.com. Now, a bird with the same ...

Recent studies show that certain feather pigments can help neutralize toxic pollution. It means darker, duller birds could have a survival advantage. By Marta Zaraska Some popular city dwellers appear ...

"Our resident yellow-crown night-herons will also move inland to breed, into Houston itself and away from the beaches they spend much of their winter on," according to a joint emailed statement from ...

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 birds have brightly-colored ancestors ...

Many species of songbirds have evolved to have strikingly colorful plumage, aiding them in catching the eye of mates, signaling, and recognizing each other. These eye-catching patterns have long ...

Each Canada goose that you see flying around in formation around Lancaster County these days has between 20,000 and 25,000 feathers, most hidden from sight. A typical songbird at your backyard feeder ...

Reason behind the colour of birds Bird colours come from pigments and physical feather structures that reflect light.

One of the newly-discovered poisonous bird species, the rufous-naped bellbird or Aleadryas rufinucha. Photo from the University of Copenhagen Flying through the jungles of Papau New Guinea, two ...