Despite their colorful appearance, blue jays are actually in the genus corvidae, the same as crows and ravens. These birds are typically 9 to 12 inches long from beak to tail and weigh under 3.5 ...

That would be its huge, secondary wing feathers, which along with the tail are used to woo females. The wings are full of ...

Successful Western Oregon forest grouse and mountain quail hunters are asked to donate a wing and tail of harvested birds for biological research. Deposit wings and tails in bright blue collection ...

Birds are some of the most colorful animals on Earth, with a palette of rainbow tones to feast your eyes on. Here are our picks for some of our most flamboyant feathered friends.

“There’s no way of knowing where the bird came from. It was in great body condition, very clean, but all of these feathers are freshly cut. There’s nothing left to the wings and tail.

Later that evening, when authorities brought the red-tailed hawk from Paxton to her home, she knew immediately something was wrong. "The moment the bird extended its wings, you could see they'd ...

It had feathers and wings, so it was clearly a bird — but it sported a long tail and sharp claws, which seemed reptilian. Read the paper: Earliest short-tailed bird from the Late Jurassic of China ...