Some birds sport unique-looking crowns, crests, or mohawks. Continue reading to learn more about these birds.  9. Golden Pheasant  Also known as the Chinese pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus), ...

To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator, ...

In the 1960s, biologists noticed the yellow tips of some birds' feathers were turning orange. 2:16 The cedar waxwing didn’t have any close relatives with red feathers, so the scientists soon ...

Carotenoids are yellow, orange and red pigments produced by plants and some insects that are then eaten by animals like cardinals. "These [yellow] birds are not converting the yellow pigments they ...

Fresh from spending the winter in Mexico, Wilson’s warblers are already beginning to appear in Orange County, making a brightly colored, energetic spectacle as they dance about shrubs in sear… ...

The yellow-crested helmetshrike (Prionops alberti), also known as King Albert’s helmetshrike, is a small bird that lives in the humid forests of the Albertine Rift mountains in central Africa.

Now, Geoffrey Hill, an ornithologist at Auburn University who helped identify Alabama’s yellow cardinal, has released a 15-minute YouTube video breaking down the science behind that genetic ...

Ingestion of honeysuckle berries causes yellow-shafted flickers to develop orange and even red feathers. C. Hansen. Pigments from feathers usually derive from a bird's diet.

Similarly, an analysis of 23 studies showed that across Europe, great tits, small birds with bright-yellow, carotenoid-colored breasts, are paler in cities than in forests.