Some 350 hummingbird species make their home in North and South America. Brightly colored and incredibly fast, these tiny birds can hover in mid-air and even fly sideways and backward. Here are 10 ...

If you want to bring more gorgeous ruby throated hummingbirds to your yard, you'll need to provide them with flowers that ...

They won’t win any parents of the year contest. The famous puffins of Iceland fly away and leave their little chicks to fend for themselves when they are just six weeks old, explains Mariana Veloso, a ...

Males display a brilliant scarlet head, breast, and underparts, contrasting sharply with their bright green ... body and red belly. Both sexes have a large, curved red bill and grey legs. Juveniles ...

High above where the Wisconsin and Mississippi Rivers meet, Wyalusing State Park offers views that could drop your jaw faster than a clumsy magician drops his hat. From the park’s blufftop lookouts, ...

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

Doves, cult favorites from that melancholic post-Britpop moment that gave us Coldplay and all of the UK’s aspiring next Radioheads, returned in 2020 after more than a decade away with The ...

Parrots are unique among birds in how they produce the pigmentation that makes their vibrant feathering. It turns out a ...

Unlike other birds, which get pigments from their diets, parrots produce their own—but scientists never fully understood the ...

Prunus padus is commonly known as bird cherry. Prunus is the Latinised form of the Greek word meaning plum, and padus is the ...

From the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro to the shoulders of pirates: parrots are synonymous with color for people across the world. In a study published in the journal Science, scientists from The ...