Bird names, both common and scientific, try to help clarify which bird is which. A black-capped chickadee by any other name ...

When you’re watching for this songbird, look out below. The Eastern towhee spends most of its time on the ground, whether ...

When it comes to references, there are a plethora to choose from. “The Kaufman Field Guide to Birds of North America,” and ...

Picasso, a 5-year-old cockatiel, accidentally escaped from her home in Ypsilanti and flew towards Ann Arbor, where she was ...

But we did find one effect of removing color: food neophobia was no longer correlated with food recognition ability. It was ...

Many feathery dinosaur fossils found so far are from small animals, and Juravenator is among the tiniest of all. The ...

Genomic sequencing of nearly all living kākāpō reveals its variations in plumage color evolved to avoid the sharp eyes of ...

Flocks of northern nesting birds have raised their families and are now, or soon will be, headed to warmer wintering habitats ...

The seventh season of Julia Child's "The French Chef," the first of the television series to air in color, revealed how color ...

feasting on carotenoid-rich caterpillars makes bird feathers yellow, orange and red. “If we don’t give them a diet that’s rich in carotenoids, they’re not going to be able to color their ...

While Child had charmed audiences in black and white, seeing “Bouillabaisse à la Marseillaise” in color helped ... they discriminate and identify objects, like birds, cars or even faces.

The Birds Who Fear Death” looks at two brothers who go deep into northern Canada to strike a deal with the indigenous people ...