See photos of bird species with purple feathers. Purple colored bird species brighten up the skies and landscapes across ...

Birds are not just pretty creatures fluttering in cages or perching on shoulders. They are intelligent, emotional, and ...

First blue feathers found on a fossilized bird An ancient relative of today’s rollers with a deep blue hue adds to our understanding of nature’s prehistoric palette.

By contrast, when the light-scattering elements are ordered randomly the way they are in blue bird feathers and some purple beetle scales, the structural coloration can be seen from all angles.

Blue Bird Feathers are much harder to obtain than regular bird feathers, but they are necessary to get some of the best equipment in the game.

But blue pigment is rare. Instead, the blue sported by bluebirds comes from tiny air pockets inside the feathers, which scatter light to create blue. Red feathers, however, rely on pigment alone.

When is a blue bird not blue? The answer to this question is always. There actually is no such thing as a blue bird. To find out why, Smithsonian asked Scott Sillett, a wildlife biologist at the ...

Naturally is a column written by a rotating cast of experts at the NJ Audubon. Within the past two months, I’ve had two ...

One of the loveliest sights an ornithologist runs across is the iridescent blue found in some birds' plumage. Sure, cardinals have red feathers and finches have yellow feathers, but if you ever ...

After ruling out diet, scientists discover the secret behind blue feathers lies inside how the feathers are made. Gavriel Jecan / Corbis For decades, scientists have known how birds with yellow or ...

She explained that colors in the feathers of a bird are formed from either pigments or from light refraction caused by the structure of the feather; in some cases, it’s a combination of the two.

One of the loveliest sights an ornithologist runs across is the iridescent blue found in some birds' plumage. Sure, cardinals have red feathers and finches have yellow feathers, but if you ever ...