Advice about how to watch garden birds in winter and recognise when they need extra care. Birdwatching from indoors is a ...

Quick Take Vulturine guinea fowl’s blue and white plumage comes from feather structure, not pigments, creating vivid, ...

Primarily used to procure and eat food, bills are also used to probe mud, peck wood, tear flesh, sift water, pry seeds, build ...

Search for the lovely American avocet along coastlines, lakes, and ponds. Plus, learn about their unique technique when ...

Why Indiana chose the northern cardinal in 1933, reflecting everyday wildlife, changing landscapes, and a search for hopeful ...

FeatherSnap, a solar-powered, Wi-Fi enabled feeder, supports the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch by encouraging households to take part in the UK’s largest garden bird survey. It uses cameras and AI ...

A paper published last year in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface described a feather as a masterpiece of engineering, one comprising nine orders of magnitude, from the nanoscale to the meter ...

Feathers on 37 of 45 birds-of-paradise species emit biofluorescence. The feathers absorb UV light and release it as a ...

MinuteEarth, which has 3.23 million subscribers, explains that all of these feathers are real bird feathers, and there are no fakes. These are inexpensive feathers sold at craft stores, but they are ...

The ibis, with its brilliant white feathers and narrow, curved beak, was the sacred bird of Thoth, the ancient Egyptian god of wisdom and writing. Beginning about 600 B.C., ibises were frequently ...

Scientists are increasingly finding examples of female birds with showy, male-like plumage. New research shines light on the benefit of female white-necked jacobins having flashy, colorful plumage ...

When Leanne Wicks swapped the city suburbs for a patch of country, her first friend was a curious and cheeky king parrot.