Birds are some of the most colorful animals on Earth, with a palette of rainbow tones to feast your eyes on. Here are our picks for some of our most flamboyant feathered friends.

Birds undergo molting, the process of shedding old feathers and growing new ones, which can result in color transformations. Most birds experience an annual molt, typically after the breeding ...

Living birds, for example, are typically born without feathers or just a downy fuzz, and then grow their feathers across their whole body. They gradually molt feathers as adults so that they never ...

When researchers found a hummingbird with shiny gold feathers on its throat in Peru, they thought it was a newly discovered species. Instead, the bird is a hybrid that resulted from two pink ...

Unlike some other colorful birds, both males and females have a similar appearance, featuring a mix of blue, orange, green, and yellow feathers. Native populations of the bird are healthy, though ...

Parrots are unique among birds in how they produce the pigmentation that makes their vibrant feathering. It turns out a single enzyme calibrates the reds and yellows of a parrot's brilliance.