Q: I watched a beautiful male cardinal feeding an all-brown bird on the roof of my garage. Why would it feed another species? A: That’s a great observation and it indicates how different young ...

Feathers ruffled in Indiana as rare Brown Booby bird sighting at state park 00:38. CHICAGO (CBS) — A rare bird sighting is ruffling some feathers in southern Indiana. A Brown Booby bird was ...

But one bird had dusty, pale brown feathers, and when the others looked at him, they frowned. "Your feathers are too dull," they said. The golden fish sighed, "Your feathers look like dirty sand." ...

In Birds of Paradise, super-black feathers help male birds look more beautiful to a female’s eye. To understand how, it helps to look at Bird of Paradise mating dances.

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 ...