To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator ...

A never-photographed bird has been spotted in the UK for what could be the first time - a pure white treecreeper ...

But some birds are total badasses—they swoop down, talons ready, and take on one of nature’s most feared creatures: snakes.

Unlike birds whose plumage is mostly blue, the green coloring of a green bird‘s feathers is the result of pigment, not a trick of the light. These birds’ emerald green, lime green, chartreuse, or ...

With its bright golden mantle and jet-black body, it would be hard to mistake the yellow-headed blackbird for any other species.

She extols several plants currently blooming in her garden whose flowers are in the fiery color spectrum that stretches from yellow to orange to red. The plant she is most enthusiastic about is a ...

What it eats: Fruit, seeds, fungi, insects, snails, fish, frogs, small birds, small mammals and carrion Why it's awesome: The southern cassowary is one of the most prehistoric-looking birds on Earth.

One further clue to differentiate between these two birds is the frontal shield: a platelike prolongation of their beaks that reaches up to their forehead. The shield of the moorhen is bright red with ...

Nevertheless, nature still has the ability to surprise us. Take the shoebill, for example: a bird so bizarre, it almost ...