Not all brightly colored birds are in the tropics. The U.S. has its own fair share of colorful avian friends and you can even ...

The color palette of the birds you see out your window depends on where you live. If you're far from the Equator, most birds tend to have drab colors, but the closer you are to the tropics, you'll ...

My first pet was a colorful parakeet named Joey, a comedic little character that used to perch on his toy bicycle with my mother’s help and ride around the kitchen table. Readers who are old enough to ...

It would be hard not to see one of the inhabitants of the new Bronx Zoo exhibit called Budgie Landing. The exhibit showcases over 1,000 of the colorful birds inside the aviary exhibit space. Budgies ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Parrots are not an uncommon bird species — there are about ...

Birds' feathers, or plumage, are some of the most strikingly variable animal characteristics that can be observed by the naked eye. The patterns that we see in birds' feathers are made up of intricate ...

Every morning in Tokyo’s Setagaya ward, flocks of parakeets would fly to an elm tree near Yoshinori Mizutani’s home. The parakeets, an uncommon sight in Japan with their bright-green feathers and ...

A team of scientists developed a methodology to map out molecular processes and used that to identify the mysterious yellow pigment gene that parrots use to create their iconic green plumage Many ...