The body feathers of the golden pheasant are primarily vivid red and gold with a bit of blue, black, and orange. The tail feathers in this species are black and cinnamon, with bright red accent ...

Eocoracias brachyptera, a bird species that lived some 48 million years ago, was blue—the first time that blue feathers have been reconstructed from the fossil record.

Males sport a golden-green crest and metallic-blue tail feathers that grow during the breeding season to form a flowing train up to 3 feet (0.9 meter) long.

Elsewhere, people admire them primarily because of their ornamental blue and green tail feathers. Less admirable is their high-pitched "honking" vocalizations.

Scientists have uncovered the fossil of a bird that lived 120 million years ago and it definitely had flair, including unusually long tail feathers. While the feathers probably didn’t help the ...

The brilliant blue patterns on the tail and the blue in its chest is just light being used to fool your eye. Think of the feather like a prism that refracts light. “They call it a structural ...

It is the central feathers in the tail that are very long, which gives the bird an elegant silhouette as it flies. The tropicbird hovers over the water and snaps up squid, crabs, and flying fish ...

Neon Blue-tailed Tree Lizard Glides Like A Feather, Thanks To Light Bubbly Bones. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2009 / 07 / 090717090824.htm.

Train feathers are the the long, quintessential green, blue and bronze plumes that made the male peacock famous. In train-rattling, the bird shakes the train feathers to create a shimmering ...

I carried that feather with me all week in other ways, though. As with Wordsworth, the world has been too much with me lately, and I welcomed the reminder of the blue jay’s world.Though ...