In bird feathers, scientists find hints about color of extinct animals. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2016 / 09 / 160923152508.htm ...

Melanin pigment gives black, reddish brown and grey colours to birds and is involved in creating bright iridescent sheens in bird feathers.

Yellow-crowned night herons have grey bodies, black and white-head, vibrant red eyes, and yellow crown consisting of a long plume. johnandersonphoto/Getty Images/iStockphoto ...

Feather lice are small, wingless insects that spend their whole lives among the plumage of birds, eating feathers and flakes of skin. The discovery of a 44-million-year-old fossil louse with ...

Built in June on the fork of a horizontal conifer branch near the trunk at low to moderate height, the yellow-rumped Warbler’s nest contains 3 to 6 eggs. Polytypic (6 ssp.). Length 5.3".

This coloration is not unique, but it is aberrant, according to a 2003 research paper on what at the time was said to be the first-ever reported yellow northern cardinal in the United States. It ...

Yellow-crowned Night Herons are water birds. Though their diet normally consists of crabs, shrimp, fish and other wetland abundance, they are perfectly content slowly stalking through Houston ...

With its bright golden mantle and jet-black body, it would be hard to mistake the yellow-headed blackbird for any other species. WASHBURN: Yellow-headed blackbird a beautiful Iowa native Skip to ...

The rainbow-sheened feathers of the male bird of paradise are an eye-catching way to snag a mate. Now, a new study finds the birds owe their shimmer to feathers that reflect light like mirrors.

At first, she told Al.com, she figured it was a species of yellow bird she had never seen before. Then she realized that the creature, with its black mask and crested head, looked just like a ...