Do you know why blue-footed boobies have blue feet? Author Laura Erickson does, and you’ll find the answers to this and many ...

Winter poses several challenges for birds. Scarce food supplies and limited water are just a few obvious challenges for nearly all of them. Extremely cold temperatures, strong winds, driving snow ...

And the glorious feathers? They seem to exist purely ... (Some postulate that it has to do with the way the birds rest.) And because flamingos live in such remote areas and pick up and move ...

Scientists have for a long time struggled to understand the differences between the wings and feathers of birds that can’t ...

Birds have feathers and a beak and lay hard-shelled eggs. Many birds are able to fly using their wings, but others such as ostriches are flightless and unable to fly. Some birds like penguins ...