The bird you saw has black eyes, orange legs and a pale colored beak. House finches typically have brown legs, so this could be a leucistic goldfinch. Regardless, the leg color and lack of red ...

The most iconic colourful beak in the bird world belongs to the Keel-Billed Toucan. Native to Central and South America, this bird’s bill is a mix of neon green, bright orange, turquoise, and ...

This is the last in my series of columns linking the Arctic areas I have been visiting this summer with our New England backyards. One trip my birdwatching mom and I planned but never took was a ...

Birds like puffins possess the ability to see not only the red, blue and green light humans can see, but also wavelengths at the UV end of the spectrum. This means they can see UV “colours” in ...

The zebra finch bird is soft gray, with red eyes, "tear drop" markings (small black lines running straight down under each eye), and bright orange legs and beak.

The research teams found that beaks of great tits living in a long-term study site, Wytham Woods in the UK (949 birds total; grey triangle, Figure 1), were 0.3mm longer, on average, than beaks of ...