Val Cunningham regularly answers reader questions about birds and birding. Submit your own questions below. Q: A beautiful blue bird dropped down to our birdbath in the middle of May. It wasn’t a ...

What makes a blue jay blue or a cardinal red? Color, a crucial element in nature, is most evident in the amazing hue and pattern variations in more than 10,000 bird species around the world. How birds ...

Nature gives us one incredible surprise after another. If you're a bird lover and have been admiring bluebirds, jays, or barn swallows, you're not seeing a blue bird; it s actually brown. Here's how ...

True blue is one of nature's rarest tricks, and the animals that pull it off range from tiny ocean drifters that steal venom ...