The blue jay this feather once belonged to was already in the process of gaining a shiny new version of itself. But the time between old feathers and new is hard for birds. They feel bad.

Long-time residents say at least a dozen bright-blue Indian peacocks have wandered Errol Heights in Southeast Portland since ...

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

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.

The photographer did not realize he spotted an exceptionally rare bird when he saw the gray bird with the blue tail outside his New Jersey home.

The wing feathers of the sunda minivet, a diminutive long-tailed bird, are actually about five times smaller than they appear in this photograph.

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The bottom of her gown, which fanned out around her, was trimmed with matching powder blue feathers, as were her hips. If we were Carpenter, we’d be shaking our tailfeathers too.