Unlike birds whose plumage is mostly blue, the green coloring of a green bird‘s feathers is the result of pigment, not a ...

The tropical rainforest nurtures some of the most striking and colourful birds in the world, each playing a vital role in maintaining the ecosystem’s balance. Keel-billed Toucans are found in ...

Rainforests conjure images of tropical climates and abundant varieties of colorful plants and animals, like the Amazon, but ...

Plants, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians ... and air to make a functioning ecosystem. A healthy tropical rainforest is the world's most spectacular example of a living, functioning ecosystem ...

Birds chirping] ♪ The biggest living thing ... Here, on the floor of a tropical rainforest, it's dark, it's humid, and it's hot-- ideal conditions for fungi. We normally think of fungi as ...

If pushed too far, vast stretches of tropical rainforest could see widespread ... With its golden lion tamarins, colorful birds, and giant stinging wasps, the Amazon’s richness and biodiversity ...

They analyzed organisms ranging from microscopic mites and earthworms in the soil, to beetles and birds in tree canopies, comparing tropical rainforest with rubber and oil palm plantations in ...

Baby birds, especially when naked and newly hatched, should be vulnerable to skin infections and parasites. Yet even in the stuffy confines of a nest in a steamy tropical rainforest, nestlings ...

"This study signals an emerging crisis for birds in one of the world's most ... bats — and irrigating the understory of the Amazon rainforest. "These findings challenge the assumption that intact ...

BALTIMORE -- The National Aquarium is home to dozens of tropical species and plants, a recreation of a South American rainforest right ... to protect migrating birds from striking the glass ...

It's a chance to see orioles, warblers, tanagers and other bright neo-tropical birds coming in from the ... It's like a piece of the rainforest that comes to visit us." Good birding spots at ...

With vibrant birds, lush foliage and immersive experiences ... At 11:30 a.m. daily in the Tropical Rainforest, learn about “Rainforest Melodies.” At 12:30 p.m. at Canary’s Call, experts ...