Why is this pigeon pink? We break down the mystery — plus, birding experts advise what to do if you see a pink bird that ...

Birds come in a wide variety of colors. Some feature relatively dull plumage, while others sport brightly colored feathers.

She extols several plants currently blooming in her garden whose flowers are in the fiery color spectrum that stretches from ...

As for the giant yellow bird, the “Sesame Street” icon’s feathers have been sourced from Dersh since at least 2009 — if not much longer ago; records were kept by hand for far too long ...

Most birds with bright yellow or red feathers — think goldfinches and cardinals — use pigments called carotenoids to make those colors. "The reason that a bird's egg's yolk is a bright yellow ...

“I was in tune with birds.” The lab matches feathers recovered from aircraft strikes to a vast ... a crest of light-brown plumage, and just a touch of yellow on its belly. Things went poorly. “You don ...

The feathers of birds of paradise contain fluorophores ... Most species ended up glowing green or yellow-green. Males had the most biofluorescent plumage, which was observed on the head, neck ...

The summer heat is pushing Cooper's Hawk babies out of their nests early. Here is what you need to know about the birds.

A 2003 study analyzed the feathers of an individual yellow Northern Cardinal. This specific bird lacked all of these reg pigments that were derived from what it had eaten. The authors believed ...

The yellow-rumped warbler is a migratory songbird ... delicately pointing at the bird’s soiled feathers with a gloved finger. More than a century later, fine particles of pollution still clung ...

Illuminated by blue and UV light, the birds’ white and bright yellow plumage broadcasts colors ... were bordered by really darkly pigmented feathers, which contrasted against that fluorescence ...

Recent studies show that certain feather pigments can help neutralize toxic pollution. It means darker, duller birds could have a survival advantage. By Marta Zaraska Some popular city dwellers ...