Part of admiring birds — a large part, in fact — is admiring their feathers. After all, without its gold, a goldfinch would just be a finch, and a bluebird would be… well, a bird. Whether vibrant red, ...

Ryan Terrill joined the San Diego Natural History Museum as the new curator of ornithology, focusing on feathers and molt ...

Tracing visible and near-infrared bird feather reflectance To study the feather reflectance of birds, Ma and his colleagues collected measurements from 1,980 bird specimens belonging to a total of 439 ...

Kicking things off are pieces adorned with Tiffany’s latest flock of birds that take their cues from Schlumberger’s 1950s Flames earrings, meant to resemble solar flares in its appearance. That detail ...

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 ...

If you see a feather on the ground, is it illegal to pick it up and take it home? In a word, yes. In more words, yes, but with a few caveats. Snowy egrets were driven nearly to extinction before the ...