On first inspection, the Cuban blue-headed quail dove doesn't look like much: drab brown feathers, a slender beak, and a ...

It's a question visitors ask staff all the time at the Smithsonian's National Zoo's Bird House. The answer may surprise you!

Ancient mammals that lived in the time of dinosaurs were mostly the same dark-brown colour, according to a new study ...

And the glorious feathers? They seem to exist purely ... we don’t know much about them,” says Chris Brown, curator of birds at the Dallas Zoo and Children’s Aquarium, who studies the ...

Foraging birds are commonly seen on ... and upperparts are often scaly looking due to pale feather fringes. The male’s combination of glossy black body and brown head is diagnostic.