Despite having beautiful, deep brown and white plumage, bearded vultures prefer to mask their white feathers with a sort of ...

Typically, male birds have more vivid colours than females. As Charles Darwin first explained, the most colourful males are ...

Birds have long been nature’s masters of flight. Their ability to glide, dive, and twist through the air with ease has fascinated both scientists and engineers. But there's more to bird flight ...

New research has revealed a surprising trick in which birds use those boring black and white feathers to make their colours even more vivid.

Whether they’re opening for takeoff, spreading wide for a lazy soar or flapping to brake for landing, bird wings make flying look almost effortless.

Birds are some of the most striking creatures on Earth, coming in a rainbow of colors that serve several important functions, ...

Environmental toxicologist wins funding to use feathers to test for lead exposure in birds Myra Finkelstein, adjunct professor in microbiology and environmental toxicology, was one of nine researchers ...