Can you save that feather you found on the trail and bring it home? In most cases, no — and there could be legal consequences ...

“Birds of a feather flock together.” You’ve heard this phrase hundreds, or maybe even thousands of times — but do you know what it means? Do birds of a feather really flock together in nature, or is ...

One toucan species grows head feathers so bizarre that scientists still cannot agree on what they actually do. The curled, ...

For most birds, looking good for spring means undergoing a partial molt. Because feathers are pure protein, shedding and rebuilding a wardrobe from scratch drains massive amounts of time, calories, ...

Birds are the only group of dinosaurs that survived the asteroid-induced mass extinction 66 million years ago. But not all the birds alive at the time made it. Why the ancestors of modern birds lived ...

Birds tweet, squawk, chirp, hoot, cluck, and screech to communicate with each other. Some birds have found another way to talk, though: they make sounds by fluttering their feathers or smacking their ...

Birds are perhaps the most colourful group of animals, bringing a splash of colour to the natural world around us every day. Indeed, exclusively black and white birds – such as magpies – are in the ...