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.

If you’re eager to learn about chickens but want to explore something a little out of the ordinary, we have just the thing for you. In the poultry world, the “blue” gene is quite a remarkable ...

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 ...

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 ...

Their tails hold an average of 200 feathers, the majority decorated with a striking eyespot like the one seen here. Their project, named Feathers—Poetic Masterpiece of Evolution, is an ode to ...

A male Dusky grouse displays its tail fan and red throat patch. NorthwestWildImages/Adobe Stock. Blue Grouse Appearance, Range, and Habitat. The sooty grouse, as its name suggests, is a dark, ashy ...

While photographing grebes, Stan Tekiela unexpectedly captures a male ruddy duck in flight, showcasing its bold colors and ...

Harry Riker did not realize he was looking at an exceptionally rare bird when he spotted the gray bird with the blue tail and yellow sides outside his home.. Riker, 69, spends significant amounts ...

Male mandarins have colorful “sails” on each wing. Feathers: Displays of Brilliant Plumage by Robert Clark, published by Chronicle Books 2016 This tail feather comes from a male red bird of ...

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 ...