Why do humans wear clothes? One reason is that changing outfits allows people to tailor their look in hopes of attracting or avoiding attention. New research led by the University of Washington found ...

Recently, a trail camera set up in a Malaysia reserve captured one of the rare, colorful creatures during surveys, according ...

KK: For birds, keeping their plumage clean isn’t about good looks or vanity—it’s essential to their health. Feathers are ...

This striking cattle egret, all decked out in its breeding plumage, was checking out a nesting site at the rookery in the Village of DeLuna. Thanks to Julie Walfield for sharing!

IT is often considered that the white plumage of gulls, terns, gannets, etc., in temperate climates is in contradiction to the principle of protective and adaptive coloration, and survives only ...

On freshly molted birds, black plumage has white spots all over; by winter, spots start to disappear; and by spring, the birds are glossy black all over, with strong suffusions of iridescent pinks ...

< The Blue-faced Honeyeater (Entomyzon cyanotis) successfully colonized urban areas in Australia. Like ... © MPI for Biological Intelligence / Kaspar Delhey ...

Male mandarins have colorful “sails” on each wing. Feathers: Displays of Brilliant Plumage by Robert Clark, published by Chronicle Books 2016 This tail feather comes from a male red bird of ...

Polytypic. Length 7.8". Sexually dimorphic. Breeding male: the adult male is unmistakable—all bright red—and achieves its brightest plumage by the end of its second calendar year. Breeding ...