All birds molt. Some species shed their feathers and re-grow news ones once a year--like cardinals, chickadees, titmice, doves, and robins. Some, on the other hand, molt at least part of their ...

Birds Of A Feather Aren't Necessarily Related : ... Today's bird species all look and sound very different from each other. "Owls look very distinctively like other owls," Reddy says.

Richard Prum, an ornithologist at Yale, discovered that birds make blue feathers in a different way. “Let’s look at some birds!” he says as he pulls out a drawer full of the sewn-up skins of ...

Feathers today are only found on birds, which use them to do things like fly, control their body temperature, and show off […] Siberian Turkamanian Eagle Owl. Chris Paul.

They found that iridescent, colorful feathers originated 415 times across the bird tree of life, and in most cases, arose outside of the tropics -- and that the ancestor of all modern birds likely ...

Fern Wexler, author of, Birds of a Feather shared more about some of these birds and why it was important to them to write this book. You can keep up with all the latest from by following them on ...

That’s between 10 and 100 times better than the feathers of most other black birds, like crows or blackbirds. It’s also only just short of the blackest materials that humans have designed.

They found that when birds evolve from a flying ancestor to a new flightless form, the birds' bodies, including the ratio of their wings and tails, change before the feathers do.

Some female birds are dressed to the nines – yet oddly interact less with others. Brightly colored feathers may be the key for these female hummingbirds to avoid physical fights with others of ...