Q: I watched a beautiful male cardinal feeding an all-brown bird on the roof of my garage. Why would it feed another species? A: That’s a great observation and it indicates how different young ...

Pyrrhuloxia birds look like cardinals; in fact, they are sometimes called the desert cardinal. This species an be found in the Southwest and has the same impressive crest as the northern cardinal ...

The natural marvels, which do everything from enabling acrobatic flight to insulating against Antarctic cold, continue to ...

The bluebird feeds mainly on insects and other invertebrates (such as moths, worms, flies, ants, etc.), but they will search for berries, especially in winter. You will often see them perched on wires ...

Scientists learned that missing one of the two enzymes causes this mutation after studying feathers taken from the first yellow northern cardinal documented in the wild. That bird was “collected ...

A 2003 study analyzed the feathers of an individual yellow Northern Cardinal. This specific bird lacked all of these reg pigments that were derived from what it had eaten.

They've been the state bird of North Carolina since 1942. That's enough time for residents of the state to feel a strong connection to them. Cardinals were an important symbol for a long before then.

“Using feathers for fashion isn’t desirable when you realise how they’re obtained: by being plucked out of their rightful owners, often while the birds are still alive and held down under a ...

The beautiful male cardinal bird in this hilarious YouTube clip is very interested in a female and is not being subtle about it! The obvious way he is checking her out may seem amusing to us, but ...

Birds like the northern cardinal and even the American robin, Michigan's state bird, tend to survive extreme cold better. Though robins are known to migrate south to warmer temperatures when ...

Typically, birds lose the feathers slowly, and we don't really notice. "For some odd reason, cardinals tend to lose their head feathers, typically after breeding season, all at once," Tribble said.