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Birds tend to be more colorful in the tropics, and scientists wanted to find out how they got there: if colorful feathers evolved in the tropics, or if tropical birds have brightly-colored ancestors ...

The color palette of the birds you see out your window depends on where you live. If you're far from the Equator, most birds tend to have drab colors, but the closer you are to the tropics, you'll ...

Imagine staring out your back window, watching the birds come to your feeder. You see Carolina wrens, Carolina chickadees, and a northern cardinal. Wait, is it a cardinal? You see what appears to be a ...

Birds receive their colors thanks to the pigments in their genetic makeup. All living creatures owe their coloring to pigmentation within their DNA. Even humanity owes our hair and skin color to this ...

The color palette of the birds you see out your window depend on where you live. If you’re far from the Equator, most birds tend to have drab colors, but the closer you are to the tropics, you’ll ...