This layering lets the feather reflect bluish light from many viewing angles, and it’s these non-iridescent structural colors that make blue jays blue and help make some parrots green.

These birds are mostly red with mixed feathers of bright blue, yellow, and green. Scarlet macaws are native to South America and Central America. Standing 3 feet tall on average, they’re one of ...

Best found in the rainforests of Central and South America, particularly in countries like Panama, Brazil, and Colombia Known ...

Yellow feathers topped with blue nanostructures makes rosy-faced lovebirds’ feathers green, while blue with red psittacofulvins could create purple, Corbo says. When factoring in melanin ...

Melanosomes linked with blue feathers are much longer than they are wide Sven Traenkner/Senckenberg Research Institute and Nature Museum in Frankfurt A prehistoric Eocoracias brachyptera bird ...