Quick Take Vulturine guinea fowl’s blue and white plumage comes from feather structure, not pigments, creating vivid, long-distance visual signals. Bright colors and high-contrast patterns help ...

A bird painted on a Mission District utility box by artist Claudio Talavera-Ballón. Photo by Yujie Zhou, Dec. 23, 2024. Chestnut-backed chickadees, yellow warblers and other feathered birds have ...

Indian Creek Nature Center Director of Land Stewardship Jean Wiedenheft collects eggs laid by chickens at the Etzel Sugar Grove Farm near Marion on Jan. 15. (Nick Rohlman/The Gazette) Buy Photo The ...

While sitting on my back porch one day during late afternoon, my leisurely pursuit was interrupted as a large and seemingly nervous flock of red-winged blackbirds happened to fly by my location. The ...

Backyard bird feeders bring color and movement to a yard, but they also change how wild birds move around your property. If you keep chickens or other poultry, that extra traffic can quietly raise the ...

A backyard flock of birds in metro Atlanta has tested positive for a highly contagious strain of bird flu, Georgia agriculture officials announced Friday. The culprit is the H5N1 strain of Highly ...