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.

The rainbow lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus) is a medium-sized species of parrot native to Australia. Unlike some other colorful birds, both males and females have a similar appearance ...

PITTSFIELD, Vt. (AP) - Bird-watchers are flocking to a small town in Vermont hoping to catch a glimpse of the painted bunting, a rare bird described as a "flying rainbow" that normally doesn't fly ...

Iridescence, the rainbow shimmer that changes depending how light hits an object, is an example of structural color. Tropical birds get their colors from a combination of brilliant pigments and ...

Iridescence–that rainbow shimmer coming off of a soap bubble–is an example of structural ... the team built a database of 9,409 species of birds to look at how color spread around the world.

Birds that can’t blink, can’t eat, can’t fly Thousands of rainbow lorikeets have been killed by LPS, mostly in southern Queensland, Australia and northern New South Wales, since the illness ...