In February, during a hike in two feet of snow along the Appalachian Trail in Cat Rocks near Pawling, N.Y., a flock of golden-crowned kinglets serenaded them when they stopped under the evergreens for ...
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A paper published last year in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface described a feather as a masterpiece of engineering, one comprising nine orders of magnitude, from the nanoscale to the meter ...
From peacocks to the Victoria crowned pigeon, these birds are known for their stunning feathers, bold colours and elaborate ...
People who have baby birds also get to witness all of their milestones. For example, one baby Cockatiel's mom recently got to ...
Have you noticed any fallen feathers around your backyard? Many of backyard birds are in the middle of their biggest transformation of the year, losing and replacing feathers in a process known as ...
Amazing breakthrough in breeding! World record holder! Developed in secrecy, the first Super Chicken is now public.” My older sibling read the headlines aloud before showing me the photo. “This bird ...
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 ...