What makes a blue jay blue or a cardinal red? Color, a crucial element in nature, is most evident in the amazing hue and pattern variations in more than 10,000 bird species around the world. How birds ...

My encounters with the red bird had been limited until a week after my mother died. I was sitting on the couch, consumed with grief when it first arrived. The red bird flew to the transom and peered ...

The bird, a nonnative species whose population ballooned in the 1970s and 80s, became emblematic of Temple City, Calif. By Livia Albeck-Ripka Reporting from Los Angeles. For decades, the residents of ...

Parrots represent one of the most interesting and colourful species of birds. The parrot family, scientifically classified ...