What gives an Australian finch its brilliantly colored red, yellow or orange bill? A major new study has uncovered the ...

One of the rarest birds in the world, the Wilkins' bunting, is a yellow finch endemic to Nightingale Island in the British ...

Small, mostly insectivorous birds frequently adorned with yellow plumage in varying quantities, warblers as we know them in ...

But how did all the amazingly coloured different bird species arise? Nearly all birds with bright red, orange, and yellow ...

When winter sets in, you can still attract birds to your yard by creating a show-stopping berry garden that can help feed ...

What a calming moment, to gaze skyward at a flock of white pelicans. The big white birds sail aloft on heat thermals in loose ...

Most birds with bright yellow or red feathers — think goldfinches and cardinals — use pigments called carotenoids to make ...

Everyone loves colourful parrots, but do you know where their bright colours come from?This question has been puzzling ...

A single enzyme fine-tunes red and yellow pigments in parrots’ polychromatic plumage, according to a new study. The findings reveal new insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying the evolution ...

Another week, another lost flycatcher from some far-flung locale has turned up. This one had been flung further than most, having perhaps started its journey as far away as Argentina.

The chemical mechanism underlying parrots’ vibrant plumage has been elucidated for the first time. The researchers behind the ...

People feed red-billed gulls at a lake in Yinchuan, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Oct. 28, 2024. Tens of ...