Many Native Americans are marking ceremonies like graduations with bald eagle feathers, a form of reverence for the bird they ...

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Jonas Hassen Khemiri, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker and other outlets, is the author of six ...

It appears that many birds are indeed imposters, but not out of malevolence toward my cognitive limitations. No, their masquerade is an ingenious survival strategy: mimicry.

Engineers Are Racing to Harness the Dazzling Magic of Feathers. They Haven’t Solved the Mystery Just Yet The natural marvels, which do everything from enabling acrobatic flight to insulating ...

At first blush, tortas and birding might not seem like a natural pairing, but the Güero Bird Club turns that assumption on its head. As you might have guessed, the club is an offshoot of ...

Triumph, grief, recklessness, nostalgia: People have all kinds of reasons for getting inked. Sometimes the muse is flesh and blood; other times it's feathers and wings. For those who find inspiration ...

By mimicking bird feathers, engineers gained insight into how birds control their flight. Wissa sees this as a two-way street. “That’s the power of bioinspired design,” she said.

The possession of feathers and other parts of native North American birds without a permit is banned by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, officials say.

From dinosaurs to birds: the origins of feather formation Scientists reveal the key role of specific genes in feather development, providing insights into their evolution from dinosaurs Date ...

ATLANTA (CN) — An 11th Circuit panel on Friday affirmed the government's dismissal of petitions from breeders seeking to import more exotic bird species into the U.S. In 2021, a group of aviculturist ...

Birds-Of-Paradise Found To Biofluoresce From The Tips Of Their Beaks To Their Toes For the first time, birds-of-paradise have been found to glow – some even inside their mouths.