Colorful Bird Famously Featured in 'The Lion King' Nearly Going Extinct Published May 19, 2022 at 12:35 PM EDT Updated May 19, 2022 at 5:28 PM EDT By Simona Kitanovska, Zenger News ...

Birds are perhaps the most colorful group of animals, bringing a splash of color to the natural world around us every day.

Picture a bird egg: Perhaps it’s the cocoa brown of a free-range chicken. Or a robin’s creamy blue-green. If it’s a quail egg, it has inky speckles.

A colorful bird is delighting nature enthusiasts in Brooklyn, N.Y. A painted bunting was spotted in Brooklyn's Prospect Park over the weekend, and birders from across the city have been showing up ...

Another issue is the simple fact that many parrots outlive their owners. Large amazons and macaws, for example, can live to be 100 years old. In these cases, rescues are often in order.

Eggshell color, in all its glory, is a trait that comes from long-ago animals: the dinosaurs. Birds, strange as it seems, are living dinosaurs, the last of a lineage that otherwise went extinct 66 ...