A pastel-colored wild bird reminiscent of a tub of sherbet ice cream created a flutter on social media in March 2021. A photograph of the brightly colored bird — complete with bright purple, orange, ...

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Birds receive their colors thanks to the pigments in their genetic makeup. All living creatures owe their coloring to ...

The animal kingdom gives us rainbows of color with butterflies and chameleons, and clownfish, but birds give us just as much of a show. Among the peacock, the toucan, and the macaw, there’s a ...

Birds tend to be more colorful in the tropics, and scientists wanted to find out how they got there: if colorful feathers evolved in the tropics, or if tropical birds have brightly-colored ancestors ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Fall is here, and we see the leaves turning yellow, orange or red thanks to a trick of our vision: our brains categorize colors. Scientists have learned that birds with colorful ...

There's an "unstoppable" force sweeping through the U.K. — and it's not what you'd expect. Conservationists are sounding the alarm as bright green parakeets, once exotic pets, now dominate the skies ...