The blue-eyed ground dove is one of Brazil’s hidden treasures ... and only a lucky few have heard its gentle coos or caught a sudden flash of its indigo blue feathers. The bird has been caught on ...

Tail feathers are multipurpose tools! They are used for lift, steering, balancing and braking. Discover fascinating facts about extreme bird feathers ... learn if mourning dove feathers and ...

The collared dove is one of the more recent doves and pigeons to arrive in Ireland: it was unheard of here before 1957 and is ...

"We've never seen this combination of different kinds of tail feathers before in a fossil bird," says Jingmai O'Connor, a paleontologist at Chicago's Field Museum and one of the study's authors.

It had feathers and wings, so it was clearly a bird — but it sported a long tail and sharp claws, which seemed reptilian. A smattering of other feathery Jurassic fossils, including those known ...