Yellow Youngsters: Yellow Bittern, Best Portrait category. As part of its fifth annual edition, the Bird Photographer of the Year (BPOTY) 2020 competition organized by the British natural history ...

The News-Press and Naples Daily News award-winning photographer shares his favorite locations in SWFL to photograph birds.

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 ...

Lilac-breasted Roller tops the list with nine distinct colors. Structural coloration, not just pigments, gives birds their vibrant hues. Birds' spectacular colors are crucial for survival and mating.

Hummingbird migrations take place in spring and fall and those events are cause for excitement among many people. "They are the gateway drug to bird watching because they are incredibly charismatic," ...

The long-held idea that birds living near the equator are more colorful than those living closer to the poles is true, suggests a recent study Paradise Tanager (Tangara chilensis). The sexes look ...

Walking through the “Birds of Paradise: Amazing Avian Evolution” exhibition at the National Geographic Museum can feel decidedly otherworldly. Part of it is the backdrop: lush foliage in exotic rain ...

Bianca Tuckwell’s photos of abandoned bird nests offer a closer look at exquisite home design–and a touching tribute to her late father. Bianca Tuckwell begins most mornings by observing the nesting ...

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Birds exhibit a wide variety of fascinating nesting and offspring-rearing behaviors throughout their lifecycle. Against the ...