The typical wild green form of the Lineolated parakeet does not appear on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services' approved captive-bred bird import list, but it does allow other color mutations that do ...

The post Some Birds’ Feathers Are Designed to Self-Destruct on Schedule appeared first on A-Z Animals. For most birds, looking good for spring means undergoing a partial molt. Because feathers are ...

Michelle Martin has done most everything she can think of to find the treasured parrots callously stolen from her Orange County feed store late last year, their feathers left scattered across the shop ...

Birds regularly shed and regrow their body and wing feathers in a process, called molting, that is critical for flight, migration, insulation, breeding and survival. A new study by University of Utah ...

The Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 prohibits possessing native North American bird feathers without a permit. The law, punishable by fines and imprisonment, aims to prevent the killing and ...

Birds have all kinds of fancy decorations for attracting mates—male peacocks have a fan of feathers accented with shimmering blue eye-spots, birds of paradise do courtship dances that highlight their ...

In October 2022 a bird with the code name B6 set a new world record that few people outside the field of ornithology noticed. Over the course of 11 days, B6, a young Bar-tailed Godwit, flew from its ...

Shimmery. Spiky. Shaggy. Soft. Feathers are what make birds so alluring—but these photographs remind us that they also tell a story about the science of evolution. It may seem wildly impractical, but ...