Its plumage is mostly black, with a yellow throat and cheeks, light-green eye patches and bright-red feathers peeking out from under its tail.

He's a Red-Tailed Black Cockatoo: he's fully black, though he used to have some yellow spots on his feathers, and his tail feathers are partially read.

This striking plume of yellow is the fluorescing tail feathers of a male emperor bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea guilielmi). Birds-of-paradise are known for their bright colours and courtship displays.

Parrots use the same molecules to create magenta, red, orange and yellow plumage, but these molecules create different colors based on how they are physically arranged inside the feather structure ...

Psittacosaurus only had feathers on its tail, and this new find seems to confirm it had different types of skin on different parts of its body. There appear to be bald patches that were scaly, ...

Those are retained until the outer tail feathers have been replaced with fresh, strong vanes, keeping the woodpecker able to fully function searching for insects in the bark.

Shimmery. Spiky. Shaggy. Soft. Feathers are what make birds so alluring—but these photographs remind us that they also tell a story about the science of evolution.

Eye-tracking cameras reveal secrets of peacock's tail feathers When a peacock fans his plumage and struts his stuff, it's an impressive sight. Or so it appears to us humans.

Then from there is the feather of a black-headed parrot, the typical eyespots of a great argus pheasant, the plumage of a blue bird-of-paradise (pictured above) and the tail feathers of a grey ...

A firm favourite amongst Australian bird watches, the yellow-tailed black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus) is a larrikin of the skies. With cheeky antics and distinct, yellow flashes of feathers, ...