Birds wear many feathers. Little songbirds, like chickadees, titmice and wrens, are covered with 2,000 to 4,000 assorted sizes of feathers. Birds of prey sport 5,000 to 8,000, while swans can have ...

Among birds with white heads, the Ross’s gull lives in Antarctica and very rarely visits North America. In breeding season, these birds have white feathers that are dusted with light gray.

Some birds appear to have washed-out feathers, but not white. Reductions in the quality (brown mutation) or quantity (dilution) can yield abnormally light-colored birds.

At first glance, the Great Argus is a quiet, foraging, pheasant-like bird from the Phasianidae family — until mating season. The wing feathers are the crown jewel of the Argus’s plumage.

Black feathers spooked them less than white ones did, perhaps because they were harder to see in the dark interior of the box; the birds were also unfazed by squares of white paper.

But for some reason, birds seem to be rise to the top of my interest meter. Perhaps it is because there are so many of them. There are over 10,000 species […] ...

Surprisingly though, in rare cases, these birds can have white feathers instead of their usual bright red. That's what Louisville birdwatcher s, Linda Metro and Lee Payne discovered during this ...

The mainly brown woodcock uses its bright white tail feathers to communicate in semi-darkness, reflecting 30% more light than any other known bird. These surprise findings, by a team led by an ...

The color of some feathers on dinosaurs and early birds has been identified for the first time. The research found that the theropod dinosaur Sinosauropteryx had simple bristles -- precursors of ...