All birds molt. Some species shed their feathers and re-grow news ones once a year--like cardinals, ... In any case, the cardinal loses its head feathers, exposing the black skin underneath. ...

A seagull's head was marked with a swastika and its feathers were ripped out by an inmate at a prison in England; the gull is now recovering at a local wildlife rescue.

Birds wear many feathers. Little songbirds, like chickadees, titmice and wrens, are covered with 2,000 to 4,000 assorted sizes of feathers. Birds of prey sport 5,000 to 8,000, while swans can have ...

A flamingo-pink bird has been turning heads in Bay ... deep black feathers all summer long. Once their breeding season concludes in ... Year-round birds like blue jays and black-capped chickadees ...

Black feathers found on other birds-of-paradise—and some found elsewhere on one of the species the team analyzed—reflect between 10 and 100 times more light than the superblack feathers do ...

Although these birds are best known for their gaudy, kaleidoscopic colors, some species also have profoundly black feathers. The feathers ruthlessly swallow light and, with it, all hints of edge ...

Their team thinks these birds-of-paradise evolved naturally “super black” feathers to make the colors look even brighter during the courtship dance. “In this case it’s sexual selection ...

Plenty of birds have black feathers: crows, ravens, cormorants, the aptly named blackbird. But when it comes to stunningly dark plumage, none of them compare to birds of paradise, a group of 39 ...

Males of some species of birds of paradise have feathers that absorb as much light as the lining of space telescopes, ... Ultra-Black Feathers On Birds Of Paradise Caused By How They Scatter Light.