Typically, females appear less colorful than males; this adaptation helps protect females from predators. Such an adaptation ...

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.

Readers share photos of gray bird species that live across America. Learn about the variety of gray colored birds you should ...

Black and brown eyes are colored by melanin; yellow eyes of diving ducks and some herons come from carotenoids, red eyes may be colored by hemoglobin. But in most birds, there is a special pigment ...

Whatever the evolutionary advantage, animals' color is inextricably intertwined with their environment, be it the bright birds of the rainforest or the dull silver fish of the deep sea. And the ...

Birds are some of the brightest and most colorful animals on Earth. The blues, reds, greens, purples and yellows of the avian world are rivaled, among vertebrates, only by the brilliant colors and ...

There are numerous birds that are with us only for the spring and summer months, including the swallows and several warblers that I’ve recently discussed. Today, I’d like to talk about three ...

Colorful birds thrive in cities, according to new research. Avian species that do well in urban areas have feathers of a more ...

Never-before-seen colorful bird hybrid surprises scientists. The offspring of a scarlet tanager and rose-breasted grosbeak—distantly related birds whose evolutionary paths diverged 10 million ...

With autumn well underway, Central Kentucky residents can look forward to a host of seasonal birds in the area, including colorful migratory species and maybe even some rare hummingbirds.. Some ...

Similarly, an analysis of 23 studies showed that across Europe, great tits, small birds with bright-yellow, carotenoid-colored breasts, are paler in cities than in forests.

Birdwatchers on the Cheyenne Big Day Bird Count held May 18 tallied 109 species in the Cheyenne area, including a lot of colorful birds Mark and I had at our backyard feeders during the month of May.