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

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 ...

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 ...

Parrots’ plumage dazzles with feathers in fiery reds, ostentatious oranges, luminous yellows, and verdant greens. Scientists ...