It is mostly white but has black patches on its outer wings, diagonal black bands on its inner wings, and an orange beak. It is the central feathers in the tail that are very long, which gives the ...

Long-tailed widowbird. These South African birds are named for their almost all black colouring and, of course, their extremely long tail. Between six and eight of their tail feathers grow to more ...

Birds wear many feathers. Little songbirds, like chickadees, titmice and wrens, are covered with 2,000 to 4,000 assorted sizes of feathers. Birds of prey sport 5,000 to 8,000, while swans can have ...

The long tail feathers of the adult males are more than half their length and give them... Scissor-tailed flycatcher acrobatic San Antonio Express-News Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

This photograph snapped by Raphael Golez, 44, will have you squinting to try and spot the small and long-tailed bird with grey, white and black feathers. The bird, which is on Winchelsea Beach ...

Colorado and Summit County’s High Country provide a year-round home to a seldom-seen bird more commonly found in the alpine tundra of Alaska and northwest Canada, the white-tailed ptarmigan.

This 120-million-year-old bird may have been one of the first to shake its tail feathers The magpie-sized Yuanchuavis probably wasn’t a strong flyer, but it did dress to impress. By Kate Baggaley ...

The mainly brown woodcock uses its bright white tail feathers to communicate in semi-darkness, reflecting 30% more light than any other known bird.