A merlin is an agile flier when hunting and their pointed wings are visible. They look smaller and darker than a kestrel ...

Nature gives us one incredible surprise after another. If you're a bird lover and have been admiring bluebirds, jays, or barn ...

When is a blue bird not blue? The answer to this question is always. There actually is no such thing as a blue bird. To find out why, Smithsonian asked Scott Sillett, a wildlife biologist at the ...

Winter can be, at the landscape level, somewhat monochrome – sweeping vistas of snow, green pine needles and ochre marsh grass peeking through. But, look closer and there are explosions of color, all ...

The animal kingdom gives us rainbows of color with butterflies and chameleons, and clownfish, but birds give us just as much of a show. Among the peacock, the toucan, and the macaw, there’s a ...