Birds-of-paradise are known for their bright colours and courtship displays. Now, it turns out that many species also have ...

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 ...

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 ...