Interestingly, birds remain woefully understudied when it comes to the optical extras. Until now, no one had looked for the ...

feathers to extraordinary behaviors. Hummingbirds, fondly referred to as “hummers” among birders, are a type of small bird known for their incredible flying ... showing a bright orange-red ...

Often taken for granted, the brightly plumaged male summer tanager is one of the more spectacular breeding birds of North America. The uniform bloodred feathers seen against a bright green ...

In short, evolution has given the birds the blackest of black feathers. With such impressive darkness surrounding its bright blue plumage, the birds appear almost alien in their mating dances ...

For one paper published by Wissa, then-postdoc Girguis Sedky, and several graduate students in October 2024, the team studied the group of feathers on a bird called covert feathers ... from one medium ...