Birds-of-paradise are even colorful in the dark, with feathers and body parts that glow a brilliant yellow-green under ...

Blue, a 21-year-old harbor seal at Buttonwood Park Zoo in New Bedford died this month due to complications from avian<a ...

“The theory was that the blue jays were missing calcium from their diet in the wintertime, and that they were eating paint ...

When trying to attract birds to your garden, you might be tempted to consider the colors of your flowers and decor. But do ...

Zoos are ramping up protections for their animals, after a seal died in February, from the avian flu. Blue, the 21-year-old ...

The first breeding site of Blue-Cheeked Bee-eater (Merops persicus) in peninsular India has been discovered in the saltpans ...

Birds-of-paradise have some of the most famous mating displays in the world, but there's more to their colorful rhythmic gymnastics than initially meets the human eye.

Study finds that birds-of-paradise are biofluorescent, suggesting that this "hidden" phenomenon provides enhanced signaling for hierarchy and courtship.

IN ANCIENT ROME “bird seers” were priests, or augurs, who delivered prophecies based on their observations of birds. The ...

New research reports, for the first time, the widespread occurrence of biofluorescence in birds-of-paradise. The study, based on specimens collected since the 1800s, finds biofluorescence in 37 of the ...

Columnist Bill Danielson explores the challenge of identifying individual birds and the rare moments that make one stand out ...