Unlike birds whose plumage is mostly blue, the green coloring of a green bird’s feathers is the result of pigment, not a ...

Birds get the green (and red) light Date: July 6, 2016 Source: Society for Experimental Biology Summary: Japanese quail grow and breed best under green and red lighting. An important bird in the ...

Often taken for granted, the brightly plumaged male summer tanager is one of the more spectacular breeding birds of North America. The uniform bloodred feathers seen against a bright green ...

The male Brewer’s is more strongly glossy, showing blue on head and green on body ... from the head iridescence to that of the body. Breeding Bird Survey has detected a general decline in ...

But the birds — known for their distinctive black-and-iridescent green plumage, bald red head and long curved beak — don’t instinctively know which direction to fly to migrate without the ...