There is an often noisy, conspicuous bird that has reached the Mountains in recent decades. It looks like an oversized Brewer ...

Where other black birds like crows are shiny because of structures in their feather barbules, the cassowary instead derives its shine from a smooth, wide rachis—the main “stem” of the feather.

With its black iridescent feathered body ... What makes cassowaries so shiny?” Unlike in other shiny birds, such as hummingbirds or crows, the cassowary’s glossiness is produced by the ...

DETROW: Do you remember what bird it was that you first tried to imitate the sound? SAMUEL: Yeah, it was the great-tailed grackle, a shiny black bird with a long tail and yellow eyes. DETROW ...

Birds' colors don't just come from pigment -- some of their coloration, like the rainbow flecks on hummingbirds and the shiny, glossy black on crows, is due to the physical makeup of their feathers.

But I was so impressed by his little lovely head and long shiny black beak–a species that is most certainly and extraordinarily unique. So I saw one of the rarest birds on earth. And now I will ...

Dakota McCoy, CC BY-ND The Birds of Paradise’s super-black feathers are so good at absorbing light that even when we coated them in gold, a shiny metal, they still looked black. That’s because ...

According to the "Arizona Breeding Bird Atlas," Arizona crows tend to ... Both are large and shiny black, but ravens are slightly larger and have bigger beaks. And while crows "caw," ravens ...

There are similar melanosomes around today, and they’re found in the feathers of glossy black birds. Most feathers ... way they are stacked to fashion shiny feathers from matte ones.

With its black iridescent feathered body ... What makes cassowaries so shiny?” Unlike in other shiny birds, such as hummingbirds or crows, the cassowary’s glossiness is produced by the ...