What gives an Australian finch its brilliantly colored red, yellow or orange bill? A major new study has uncovered the ...

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

The yellow-billed cuckoo has a slender body, a long tail, and rounded wings. Adults have grayish brown upperparts with whitish underparts. The crown can be noticeably grayer than the rest of the ...

It has large, yellow flank plumes, with a pair of long tail wires. The female is maroon brown, with a darker head and a lighter belly and a yellow or white beak. These birds mainly eat fruits ...

Scientists have uncovered the fossil of a bird that lived 120 million years ago and it definitely had flair, including unusually long tail feathers. While the feathers probably didn’t help the ...

A bird fossil of similar age to Archaeopteryx shows flight-aiding innovations such as the loss of a long tail. Fossil find reveals the earliest known short-tailed bird. Your privacy, your choice ...

YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO } Coccyzus americanus FAMILY: Cuculidae. DESCRIPTION: The yellow-billed cuckoo is a robin-sized bird with a slender, long-tailed profile, a length of roughly 12 inches, and a ...

The fossil remains of an ancient bird with a stomach full of seeds and a tail like a dinosaur's have been unearthed from a province in China famed as one of the richest treasure troves of the ...

These birds hop and walk on the ground with a swaggering and confident gait. Learn more about the black-billed magpie. A black-billed magpie photographed at The New Mexico Wildlife Center in Española ...

Five black scoters and a long-tailed duck were seen on the Connecticut River near Hanover on Oct. 22. Five American coots were seen in Eel Pond in Rye on Oct. 18.

Yellow-rumped warblers are fairly large, full-bodied warblers with a large head, sturdy bill, and long, narrow tail. In summer, both sexes are a smart gray with flashes of white in the wings and ...

Scientists have uncovered the fossil of a bird that lived 120 million years ago and it definitely had flair, including unusually long tail feathers. While the feathers probably didn’t help the ...