Magpies in multicolour: Stunning pictures reveal magnificent rainbow wings of normally black and white bird as it glides inches above the ground ...

Nita Jalkanen says she checks on the avian neighbours that fly into her Edmonton backyard to drink from her bird bath nearly ...

It’s comparatively a small bird with a black body and white colour in the vent and wing patch. The heart-spotted woodpecker is a very elusive, timid bird with distinct heart-shaped designs on ...

The black upper wing and contrasting white under wing surfaces are plainly visible. (Credit: Dan Pancamo / CC BY-SA 2.0) Dan Pancamo via a Creative Commons license ...

Prominent black crescent framing lower edge of auricular. On perched bird, wing patch shows only as a thin white line along the leading edge of the folded wing.

"And it's why even white birds will often have black tips on their wings." Having black—and thus stronger—wing feathers could've helped Archaeopteryx as it flapped or coasted between trees ...

Monarch butterflies with more white spots on their mostly orange-and-black wings are more successful at long-distance migration. Some scientists think the spots may affect airflow around their wings.

Soaring birds. They exposed osprey, gannet and back-blacked gull wings to wind speeds of 6, 12 and 18 metres per second, similar to the birds’ natural flight speeds.