Blue birds and red birds get their vibrant colors ... The findings were published in Physical Review E last week. The red feathers of cardinals and scarlet ibises get their brilliant color through ...

It’s a colourful puzzle. Blue jays and cardinals get their vivid hues of blue and red, respectively, in different ways – and efforts to understand why may help create coloured displays for ...

What makes a blue jay blue or a cardinal red? Color ... variations in more than 10,000 bird species around the world. How birds make those colorful feathers is the topic Samantha Rutledge ...

Red-shafted flickers have brilliant coloration; their eastern cousins, yellow-shafted flickers, have been shown to appear red. It was originally thought this was due to interbreeding, but new ...