Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A black-backed dwarf kingfisher sitting on a branch. Nature produces some truly extravagant costumes, and birds have evolved more ...

What makes a blue jay blue or a cardinal red? Color, a crucial element in nature, is most evident in the amazing hue and pattern variations in more than 10,000 bird species around the world. How birds ...

Birds boast some of the most vibrant colors among terrestrial animals. The tropics are often renowned for the brightest birds, but U.S. birds also display a wide array of striking hues. But just how ...

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Glistening Green, Best Portrait Gold Award winner. A green Tanager in a tropical forest of Mashpi Amagusa Reserve, Ecuador. The image of a peregrine falcon tackling a brown pelican that ventured too ...

BRAINERD — For a brief period each spring, colorful songbirds gather. Some are migrating — en route northward — while others are busy staking out nesting territories. The males, of course, are singing ...