but one bird of paradise species does things a little differently. Rather than being covered in color, the birds are largely covered in soft black feathers which absorb so much light that they ...

These colors distinguish them as some of the world's most dramatic and attractive birds. Males often sport vibrant feathered ruffs or amazingly elongated feathers, which are known as wires or ...

By the end of the 1910s, both the United States and Great Britain passed ... of the birds that were used for feathers like the 45 existing species of Birds-of-Paradise remain endangered.

The annual migration of sandhill cranes brings bird ... paradise," park ranger David Young noted. The cranes, with their distinctive red foreheads and gray feathers, fly to Alabama from the Great ...

Images of a wide variety of birds including birds of paradise in the wild. The birds display their feathers and their exotic beauty and colour is a spectacle. This is from the series: Wonders of ...