Coverts are feathers that emerge from above or below the base of the tail. Tail feathers grow from the bird’s tail or ...

The dog pounced and then swallowed my parrot when he flew off for a bathroom break. I jumped off the scaffolding, picked up the St. Bernard by his tail, and kicked him in the belly until he vomited my ...

Flying direct from Los Angeles to Australia means at least 15 hours on a plane. But a bird named the bar-tailed godwit smashed the Guinness record by flying the 8,400-mile journey from Alaska to ...

By the late 1990s, fewer than 5,000 red-tailed amazons remained. The parrot, native to Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, depends on guanandi trees to survive.

Guinness World Records lists the longest recorded migration by a bird without stopping for food or rest as 12,200 km (7,580 miles) by a satellite-tagged male bar-tailed godwit flying from Alaska ...

It had feathers and wings, so it was clearly a bird — but it sported a long tail and sharp claws, which seemed reptilian. A smattering of other feathery Jurassic fossils, including those known ...