To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator, ...

Learn where you can see a green jay, plus what the birds look like, what they eat, and more about their calls and nesting behavior.

A flash of lime green in Park Slope, a museum beckons and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan ...

How Tropical Birds Took Over This European Capital After a small group of parakeets were released from a zoo in Brussels in the 1970s, their numbers soared.

Birds are some of the most colorful animals on Earth, with a palette of rainbow tones to feast your eyes on. Here are our picks for some of our most flamboyant feathered friends.

When the green parakeet with the rose-colored beak landed on Raymond Hedrick’s hat during a friendly tennis match Saturday in ...

Researchers have discovered an extraordinary, vibrantly colored tropical bird with "female" feathers down one side of its body and "male" feathers down the other. Female green honeycreepers ...

A tropical bird — never reported to have graced the Sunflower State — is now calling Kansas home. Mark Nolen, a Wichita resident and Hutchinson Community College biologist professor who has ...

As populations of wild parakeets have grown in Brussels and other cities in Europe, researchers are trying to understand how the bird has flourished in cold climates.

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WLUK) -- When a southern bird shows up in Wisconsin, it causes quite the stir. Green Bay has been lucky enough to be the landing spot for only the second roseate spoonbill ...

Male birds have shimmering blue and green feathers, while females tend to sport low-key green plumage. The tropical rainforest is a dangerous place for small birds, said Falk, who’s also a researcher ...