While some birds possess drab, plain-looking feathers, others sport brightly-colored feathers. Females typically appear less colorful than males, an adaptation that helps protect them from predators.

Birds-of-paradise are even colorful in the dark, with feathers and body parts that glow a brilliant yellow-green under ultraviolet (UV) light, a new study found.

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

Plumage and body parts of birds-of-paradise glow in certain areas when viewed under blue and ultraviolet, or UV, light, appearing bright green or yellow-green, scientists reported in a new study ...

According to Bird Watching Daily, manakins “are small, active, and colorful like warblers, have elaborate courtship displays that include dancing and gymnastics, and combine a variety of non ...

The reasons and methods of this color communication vary massively among species and environments. Birds tend to acquire colored pigments — like red, orange and yellow carotenoids ... Little Mysteries ...

And it wasn’t until around 400 million years later that bright colors expanded across vertebrates and arthropods (a group of invertebrates with an exoskeleton, such as insects and spiders).

Some birders report spotting a female as well — colored yellow-green all over. Birders converge on Dorothea Dix Park in Raleigh to photograph a rare painted bunting in Raleigh, NC.

Some birders report spotting a female as well — colored yellow-green all over. Birders converge on Dorothea Dix Park in Raleigh to photograph a rare painted bunting in Raleigh, NC.