Unlike birds whose plumage is mostly blue, the green coloring of a green bird’s feathers is primarily a combination of pigment and structure, not just a trick of the light.

The full-timers consist of loud, marauding jays, bright-yellow American goldfinches, chattering rufous-sided towhees, frolicking California towhees, and several generations of black-headed grosbeaks.

When you think of colourful birds, your mind may leap to spectacular birds-of-paradise in faraway tropical jungles or to bright pink flamingos on the shores of African lakes. Songbird species – ...

News; Sci/Tech; Cool Critters: Sweet song, bright feathers – why the American yellow warbler is everywhere and nowhere Sun., June 8, 2025 Often seen as a lemon-colored blur among leafy treetops ...

To test this, they visited 38 yellow warbler nesting sites on two different islands: Santa Cruz Island, which has more than 15,000 human residents and more than 1,000 cars, and Floreana Island ...

Unlike most other birds, goldfinches eat only seeds year-round. They also are Georgia's last birds to nest each year. (Charles Seabrook for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) ...