Unlike birds whose plumage is mostly blue, the green coloring of a green bird‘s feathers is the result of pigment, not a ...

Typically, females appear less colorful than males; this adaptation helps protect females from predators. Such an adaptation ...

The male Brewer’s is more strongly glossy, showing blue on head and green on body ... from the head iridescence to that of the body. Breeding Bird Survey has detected a general decline in ...

Description: The male painted bunting is the most colorful of the North American songbirds, with a blue head, red belly and green back ... to North Florida. The birds in this area winter in ...

The dark coloring creates an optical illusion when placed next to the bird's other green-blue feathers — the black ... dark black plumage and contrasting head of vivid red.

The blue-eyed ground dove was a species shrouded in mystery, with no confirmed records for more than 70 years, until its ...

The lake’s sediments then entombed the bird’s body, exquisitely preserving ... structural colors that make blue jays blue and help make some parrots green. In living birds, melanosomes ...