Nature often displays its beauty in the form of colours, and birds are one of the most colourful examples of this. Some ...

We like to think that animals follow the crowd. If most of the group does something, surely the individual will copy. But what if the story is more complicated? What if the deciding factor isn't just ...

Contrary to our human perception of bird coloration as extraordinarily diverse, a new study reports that bird plumages exhibit only a small fraction (less than a third) of the possible colors birds ...

Researchers have found that bird species with multiple plumage color forms within in the same population, evolve into new species faster than those with only one color form, confirming a 60-year-old ...

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

A new study of fossilized bird feathers from 100 million years ago has determined that the broad stripes visible on the feathers do indicate the color of that ancient bird's plumage. Researchers say ...

Swedish boffins have revealed how birds see the world for the the first time BIRDS can see a “colour” that people can’t, meaning they view a very different world to the one we do. Boffins have now ...