Birds have all kinds of fancy decorations for attracting mates—male peacocks have a fan of feathers accented with shimmering ...

New Guinea's tropical rainforests are home to one of the animal kingdom's most spectacular courtship rituals, with male birds ...

A Fork-tailed Flycatcher. Credit: Valentina Gómez-Bahamón, Field Museum Bird feathers have many different functions. Softer down keeps a bird warm and stiffer wing feathers are used for flight.

Birds boast some of the most vibrant colors among terrestrial animals. Our pretty avian friends have inspired our Democrat and Chronicle photographers for years and captured the imaginations of many ...

Feathers are among the most complex cutaneous appendages in the animal kingdom. While their evolutionary origin has been widely debated, paleontological discoveries and developmental biology studies ...

For the first time, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and Kent State University have partnered to bring an exhibit to ...

A Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher takes flight on the front cover of the new chapbook "Words of a Feather" with poems inspired by Kansas birds. Many of us have been spending more time outside during the ...