Birds are some of the most colorful animals on Earth ... which they stun before eating by banging the insects' heads on a branch. The paradise tanager (Tangara chilensis) is a 5.5-inch-long ...

BRAINERD — For a brief period each spring, colorful songbirds gather ... present themselves — a tree branch sways, an errant shadow covers a portion of a bird. Oh, and just like people ...

The 7-acre Cypress Wetlands in Port Royal is bird bonanza in the spring. All sorts of species congregate to nest with white ibis and great and snowy egrets tending to dominate the color palette.

Yale ornithologist Richard Prum has spent years studying the molecules and nanostructures that give many bird species their rich colorful plumage, but nothing prepared him for what he found in ...

There are many fascinating bird species across Peru, but you can distinguish this cock-of-the-rock by its colorful plumage. The males often have more orange feathers, and the females are more on ...