The blue jay is one of the birds we learned as children. Every yard has one of these white, black, and blue crows; if not today, then at some point during the year.

But you will still find birds at your feeder or hanging upside down on a block of suet. You can still spot the Eastern blue bird, cardinal, downy woodpecker, pileated woodpeckers, ...

Blue jay numbers have rebounded in many spots across Pennsylvania and the rest of the northeastern U.S. after drastic declines a decade or so ago, when large numbers of the birds were killed by ...

Experts say it was a Northern Cardinal, but with some blue feathers instead of red. The cardinal was spotted Monday on the PixCams bird feeder camera in Murrysville, Pennsylvania.

What makes a blue jay blue or a cardinal red? Color, a crucial element in nature, is most evident in the amazing hue and pattern variations in more than 10,000 bird species around the world.

F or even the most casual birdwatcher or nature lover, there's something so uplifting about seeing a male northern cardinal.The candy apple red birds with the short orange beaks and the adorable ...

Okay, so this week's featured creature isn't really a cardinal, but it is in the same family -- cardinalis. And the blue grosbeak and the northern cardinal do resemble each other in a few ways ...

The cardinal is nature’s masterpiece. All that vibrant and classy red, ... I have spotted since early March the following: a blue bird which makes me think of royalty.

As it turns out, there aren't many blue pigments used by birds in general. So any time you see blue or purple on a bird's wing, you can suspect that at least some of it is structural color ...

This time of year, just seeing a cardinal boosts my Christmas spirit. But I also know that the cardinal is a year-round Georgia resident that retains its shiny redness through all seasons.

Bright red cardinals are commonly part of Christmas cards, holiday decor and the general spirit of wintertime. This bird, called the Northern Cardinal, is North Carolina’s state bird (six other ...