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.

Colorful birds thrive in cities, according to new research. Avian species that do well in urban areas have feathers of a more ...

Colorful songbirds move through on southbound migration. Marcy Scott. Naturally Speaking. To many of us in southern New Mexico, late August means that the kids are back in school and the scent of ...

As colorful as birds are to the human eye, we’re actually “colorblind with respect to birds,” Prum said. That’s because birds see an even wider gamut of colors than humans can. ...

There are numerous birds that are with us only for the spring and summer months, including the swallows and several warblers that I’ve recently discussed. Today, I’d like to talk about three ...

Birds are some of the brightest and most colorful animals on Earth. The blues, reds, greens, purples and yellows of the avian world are rivaled, among vertebrates, only by the brilliant colors and ...

A colorful surprise. Living birds are technically a specialized group of dinosaurs, and the model indicated that the common ancestor of all the birds alive today had the iridescent feathers that ...