and the resplendent quetzal, which plunges toward potential mates while trailing its metallic-blue feathers. So, without further ado, here are some of the most colorful birds in the world.

This colorful creature is a brand new member ... don’t have the long tail that the adults grow over time. This species of ...

In the early 20th century, ornithologist Robert Ridgway published a massive dictionary to categorize birds’ hues, from ...

A rainfrog, an amphibious mouse, and a “blob-headed” fish are only some of the 27 new species discovered deep Peru’s Amazon ...

A common visitor at our backyard bird feeders, red-bellied woodpeckers enjoy eating and caching seeds of all kinds.

Thumbing through my field guides for North American species, it seemed to me that North American birds, on average, are not as colorful as tropical species. This was even true when comparing the ...

This is especially true for red and blue colored species. We also found that, across the world, regions with more ...

who decimated some species. These birds also lend their name to a colorful flower. South Africa's bird-of-paradise (Strelitzia reginae) is a member of the banana family. It sports a beautiful ...

They included gadwall, northern pintail and bufflehead (three varieties of duck), shorebirds like the piping plover and red ...

If you happened to be tromping through the grassy woodlands of eastern Australia in the year 1927, you might have been lucky enough to come across a remarkably colorful parrot, even by parrot ...