15 Birds With Spectacularly Fancy Tail Feathers These bird species take shaking your tail feathers to a whole new level.

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.

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.

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.

Adult: gray and yellow areas of underparts fairly bright, with abrupt gray-yellow contrast on breast. Outer pairs of tail feathers extensively rufous on inner webs; dark shaft stripes and rufous ...

These animals spend a lot of time flashing their yellow-hued feather- and tail-wings to each other before pairing up.

Greater Bird-Of-Paradise These birds have extravagant feathers, with their striking yellow tail used during courtship displays.

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, ...

A seagull's head was marked with a swastika and its feathers were ripped out by an inmate at a prison in England; the gull is now recovering at a local wildlife rescue.

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, ...

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 ...

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.