It also helped if they were permanent and not part of the bird’s breeding plumage to be shed later, which ruled out the whydahs. The following are 10 birds who really do have long tails.

Occasionally you see a bird without tail feathers. Chances are the bird lost feathers instead of its life by a lucky escape from a predator. When will the feathers grow back? Is replacement ...

Orange Bird is red-hot. The cartoon character, created for Florida Citrus Growers as Walt Disney World prepared to open, maintains a legion of fans more than 50 years after his debut. Disney does n… ...

Birds differ widely in the shape and size of their tails, yet until recently nearly all attempts to understand this morphological diversity have focused exclusively on the role of sexual selection for ...

Two Jurassic Fossils Could Be The Earliest True Birds Ever Found The 149-million-year-old specimens are slightly younger than Archaeopteryx, but more convincingly birdy.

A pigeon-inspired robot has solved the mystery of how birds fly without the vertical tail fins that human-designed aircraft rely on. Its makers say the prototype could eventually lead to passenger ...

This bird had some features characteristic of modern birds, such as a short tail. The oldest short-tailed bird previously known is 120 million to 131 million years old and from the Cretaceous period.

"We've never seen this combination of different kinds of tail feathers before in a fossil bird," says Jingmai O'Connor, a paleontologist at Chicago's Field Museum and one of the study's authors ...

Birds at Wishing Star Park of Shanghai Disney Resort in Shanghai, east China. Photo by Xinhua. Yao Li, head of the Shanghai Wild Bird Society, said that grassroots bird-watching activities have been ...

Bird Park invites dogs and their owners to compete in competitions, sign up for workshops, and sample treats at the Walpole park’s “Dog Day” event.