What makes a blue jay blue or a cardinal red? Color, a crucial element in nature, is most evident in the amazing hue and pattern variations in more than 10,000 bird species around the world. How birds ...

A rare bird alert on the eBird app led University of Texas researchers to discover a rare hybrid from a blue jay and green jay mating.

Melanosomes linked with blue feathers are much longer than they are wide Sven Traenkner/Senckenberg Research Institute and Nature Museum in Frankfurt A prehistoric Eocoracias brachyptera bird whose ...

Birds boast some of the most vibrant colors among terrestrial animals. Our pretty avian friends have inspired our Democrat and Chronicle photographers for years and captured the imaginations of many ...

Baseball has been creating some wonderful publicity for the blue jays lately — the ones that love eating peanuts and have ...

To get bird feathers, you need to head to Faron Woods region. Here, you’ll find very small bird-like creatures called Chirris roaming the area. You need to creep up on these with your bug net at the ...

From the blue-footed booby’s clumsy dance steps to the superb bird-of-paradise’s dramatic feather display, these are eight birds that take dating rituals to bizarre extremes. It’s proof that when it ...

CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) -Ohio has numerous brightly colored birds. For most of those, the color is actually in the feather itself. “If you see birds that are red, or orange or yellow those are pigment ...

Cassowaries are big flightless birds with blue heads and dinosaur-looking feet; they look like emus that time forgot, and they're objectively terrifying. They're also, along with their ostrich and ...