From the striking rainbow colors of parrots in the rainforest to the brilliant flashes of yellows, oranges and blues in coral ...

The tropical rainforest nurtures some of the most striking and colourful birds in the world, each playing a vital role in maintaining the ecosystem’s balance. Keel-billed Toucans are found in ...

Birds are some of the most colorful animals on Earth ... They are native to the Amazon rainforest and northern South America. Paradise tanagers like to stay high in the canopy, hanging out ...

The origin of these differences in plumage has puzzled scientists for centuries: did colorful feathers evolve in the tropics or do tropical birds have colorful ancestors that flocked to the region ...

If pushed too far, vast stretches of tropical rainforest could see widespread ... With its golden lion tamarins, colorful birds, and giant stinging wasps, the Amazon’s richness and biodiversity ...

Baby birds, especially when naked and newly hatched, should be vulnerable to skin infections and parasites. Yet even in the stuffy confines of a nest in a steamy tropical rainforest, nestlings ...

They analyzed organisms ranging from microscopic mites and earthworms in the soil, to beetles and birds in tree canopies, comparing tropical rainforest with rubber and oil palm plantations in ...

Thumbing through my field guides for North American species, it seemed to me that North American birds, on average, are not as colorful as tropical species. This was even true when comparing the ...