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The Science Behind the Vulturine Guinea Fowl’s Striking Feathers

Explore how the vulturine guinea fowl’s striking blue and white feathers serve more than beauty. From structural coloration ...
Democrat and Chronicle

How birds get their colors. A visual guide to your brilliantly hued, winged friends.

Birds boast some of the most vibrant colors among terrestrial animals. Our pretty avian friends have inspired our Democrat and Chronicle photographers for years and captured the imaginations of many ...
LancasterOnline

North Museum’s bird collection thanks to generations of amateur naturalists

It doesn’t get top billing at the North Museum of Nature and Science in Lancaster. But venture into the basement and behold a world-class bird collection whose origins are full of intrigue and ...
LancasterOnline

There’s far more to feathers than meets the eye, naturalist tells bird club

Each Canada goose that you see flying around in formation around Lancaster County these days has between 20,000 and 25,000 feathers, most hidden from sight. A typical songbird at your backyard feeder ...
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Kansas Birds Inspire A Poetry Collection For Readers Drawn Outdoors In The Pandemic

A Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher takes flight on the front cover of the new chapbook "Words of a Feather" with poems inspired by Kansas birds. Many of us have been spending more time outside during the ...
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Carla Dove and the “Bird Detectives” at the National Museum of Natural History

Research assistant James Whatton confirms the feathers in front of him belong to a gray catbird. Credit: Smithsonian In the hallways of the National Museum of Natural History—past the bathrooms, the ...