From peacocks to the Victoria crowned pigeon, these birds are known for their stunning feathers, bold colours and elaborate ...

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 ...

Discover the clever ways birds survive winter, from sunbathing and feathery insulation to behavioral and metabolic tricks ...

Computer animators and video game designers may soon have a better way to create the purple-green sheen of a grackle's wing, ...

A Fork-tailed Flycatcher. Credit: Valentina Gómez-Bahamón, Field Museum Bird feathers have many different functions. Softer down keeps a bird warm and stiffer wing feathers are used for flight.

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 ...

Have you ever looked at a bird and wondered, how can it be so red or so blue or so intensely yellow? Well, if you have, then you and several researchers have something in common. A new study finds ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

The Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 prohibits possessing native North American bird feathers without a permit. The law, punishable by fines and imprisonment, aims to prevent the killing and ...