If you've ever seen an Australian finch, you know that it has a brightly colored red, orange, or yellow bill. But how and why do these birds develop one color over another? A new study has revealed ...

Carotenoids are the underlying pigment for much of the enormous variety in color found across birds and form the basis for the colors red, yellow, and orange. In a study published in Current Biology, ...

If you have a bird feeder in the continental United States, you have almost certainly been visited by house finches. On both sides of the Mississippi their hungry flocks coat feeders like displays of ...

Quiz question: Name a bright yellow bird, one that seems invariably chipper, has an unusual diet, moves around in flocks of its own kind and lives among us in disguise all winter. If “male American ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. ANSWER: Various sources suggest that the birds are taking apart your screen ...

Spring brings the widest variety of birds through the Santa Fe area, but midwinter is nothing to sneeze at. Many of you have reported yellow-rumped warblers and ruby-crowned kinglets at your suet ...

At her brick ranch in Ingleside, Kersten “Chuckie” McNeill enjoys daily visits from a 4-foot tall, crimson-crowned sandhill crane that taps gently on the window, as if delivering a message in Morse ...