The sunny yellow-hued American goldfinch, which has a black forehead marking, can be seen all over the states. For a real ...

A paper published last year in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface described a feather as a masterpiece of engineering, one comprising nine orders of magnitude, from the nanoscale to the meter ...

A Fork-tailed Flycatcher. Credit: Valentina Gómez-Bahamón, Field Museum Bird feathers have many different functions. Softer down keeps a bird warm and stiffer wing feathers are used for flight.

One of the remarkable abilities that birds possess is their ability to regenerate the feathers that they shed. Unlike human ...

The Resplendent Quetzal dazzles with emerald-green feathers and a crimson belly, hiding in misty cloud forests. Its elusive ...

Birds and their feathers have been important to humans since prehistoric times. Birds were important for food. Feathers were ...

The Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 prohibits possessing native North American bird feathers without a permit. The law, punishable by fines and imprisonment, aims to prevent the killing and ...