Chris Maynard is obsessed with feathers. The artist, based in Olympia, Wash., thinks feathers show “life’s perfection,” in the way that they overlap and contour to a bird’s body. “Their complexity as ...

While driving around the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge last weekend, Kathy and I noticed stumpy-looking boat-tailed grackles and red-winged blackbirds with no tails. It was a sure sign that ...

Every so often, I wonder why I've gotten hooked on birds. Why not plants, or reptiles, or coin collecting? What is it about birds that captures my imagination? Part of the answer comes as I listen to ...

There’s no shortage of talented artists in Nova Scotia, but in her small Greenwood, N.S. studio, Cynthia Henry is creating some magical works of art, using a very unconventional canvas. “Feather art ...

A rare nine coloured Himalayan monal was spotted soaring over Bhutan’s mountains, flashing rainbow feathers in sunlight. But what makes this high altitude bird shimmer so brilliantly in flight?

The genes that caused scales to become feathers in the early ancestors of birds have been found by US scientists. By expressing these genes in embryo alligator skin, the researchers caused the ...