Researchers recently discovered that dozens of species in the flamboyant family are biofluorescent, emitting a gleaming light ...
The Indian jungles are a paradise for birdwatchers. These jungles offer a chance to spot vibrant and exotic birds in their ...
Birds-of-paradise are known for their bright colours and courtship displays. Now, it turns out that many species also have body parts that fluoresce ...
As Munmun Dhalaria watched from a bird blind, this male jujurana ... He deploys his finery: His head sprouts blue horns, his tail feathers fan, his rainbow wattle unfurls. At passion’s peak ...
Thin and long tailed, with outer tail feathers almost entirely white (tail from below looks white). The bill is thin and pale gray. Breeding male: blue-gray above, including most of head and back.
Tail feathers grow from the bird’s tail ... Native to Australia, it’s also a pretty bird with plumage of pink, blue, and green. As with so many other birds, the male’s tail is longer than ...
Some sponge applications added the orange-brown color to each breast. It was easy to add a couple blue tail feathers to each bird. As eyes were altered from just above beaks to the side of each head, ...
A survey of museum specimens reveals that more than a dozen species of the birds sport biofluorescence in feathers, skin or even inside their throats.