SOME time ago I wrote a short letter asking for information about the colours of birds' eggs ... Why should the egg of a starling, which generally builds on house-tops, be blue?

Birds and humans ... the diversity of avian color signals. Aa Aa Aa Evolutionary processes have generated diverse color patterns of avian feathers, skin patches, and egg shells, which perform ...

A quiet residential street found itself at the centre of a frenzy of excitement for several hours as word spread that a rare bird had been spotted in the area. The Rose-coloured Starling ...