Birds are some of the most colorful animals on Earth, with a palette of rainbow tones to feast your eyes on. Here are our picks for some of our most flamboyant feathered friends.

Birds are some of the most interesting animals in the world, whether they are stunning us with colorful plumage or ...

“Birds have four types of color cones that are sensitive to red, green, blue, and ultraviolet/violet colors”, Professor Prum elaborated in email. “So birds can see all the colors visible to ...

This color-block bird, patched with black, blue, green and red, looks almost too perfect—and perfectly odd—to be real. Imagine coming across an entire fruit-and-insect-eating flock of them in ...

In birds, the pigment melanin generates black, gray, brown, and orange colors. Carotenoids are used by specialized feather structures to create those brighter hues. The other process is through ...

The most colorful species the researchers examined was the paradise tanager, a small Amazonian songbird whose plumage is a riot of intense blues, greens, reds, and black.

Observations of captive birds have shown the importance of carotenoids in the diet. For instance, male house finches on a diet of seeds (which are low in carotenoid content) don’t develop the ...

This Colorful Bird Executes an Immaculate Display of Courtship. Johanna Kennelly Ullman. ... The males also dance to attract females, alternating their black-and-white wings while crouching.

For example, the male Zebra finch is a colorful bird with black and white striped tales and chests, brown side feathers, and orange cheeks. Females are usually gray.

The colorful blooms will be gone soon, and so will many of the migrating birds. Hopefully, I'll have a few mementos stored in my mind, if not images on a hard drive.

They found that iridescent, colorful feathers originated 415 times across the bird tree of life, and in most cases, arose outside of the tropics– and that the ancestor of all modern birds likely ...