Many species of songbirds have evolved to have strikingly colorful plumage, aiding them in catching the eye of mates, ...

My grandmother reveled at the sight of bright yellow birds with black caps that attended the zinnias in her garden each summer. Wild canaries, she called them. Birds: Goldfinches readily drawn to ...

Hidden layers of colour in the plumage of tanagers and some other songbirds explain what makes them so eye-catching ...

I am ever amazed each time I see them. The male birds are bright yellow with a black patch on their head. The female birds are grey and yellow, less bright in color. The summer months are the best ...

With its bright golden mantle and jet-black body, it would be hard to mistake the yellow-headed blackbird for any other species. An inhabitant of Iowa marshlands, the yellow-head has a unique and ...

Learn what a yellow-headed blackbird looks like and where to find this bird. Also discover facts about their sounds, nests, diet and more.

As feeder hosts puzzle over the bright yellow birds' seeming summertime absence, here's the story. The fluctuating populations result when northern birds move through in fall, feeding heavily ...

Tan across the back, a white belly and cheeks and a black cap make their scarlet faces and yellow wing bars sing. In the nineteenth century, goldfinches were popular caged birds. In fact, in some ...

Now, Geoffrey Hill, an ornithologist at Auburn University who helped identify Alabama’s yellow cardinal, has released a 15-minute YouTube video breaking down the science behind that genetic ...

Mr. Yellow, a cardinal with a rare genetic mutation spotted in central Alabama in 2018 and 2019, sits watch over two baby birds that are possibly his offspring. Jeremy Black Photography ...