He wanted to see how many different avians he could find on people’s hats. He counted 542 hats adorned with parts from 174 ...

Blue and gold macaws (sometimes called blue and yellow macaws) are a type of tropical bird most commonly known as a parrot. Due to the robust exotic pet trade, they are endangered in their home ...

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 ...

Dec. 8, 2003 – University of Utah biologists twirled louse-infested bird feathers on an electric fan and flew pigeons and doves like kites on strings in a study that found small lice stick to small ...

Experts say wing clipping, a common practice in some countries to impair a bird's flying ability, is no longer recommended as ...

Have you ever looked at a bird and wondered, how can it be so red or so blue or so intensely yellow? Well, if you have, then you and several researchers have something in common. A new study finds ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich have created a material traversed by a network of channels the size of micrometres in the same way as the microstructure of a bird's feather. To do so they have developed a ...