These flashy feathers probably didn’t help the ... The bird was likely comparable in size to a modern blue jay. However, its tail reached more than 150% the length of its body.

The blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata ... Peahens also lack the massive, colorful train of tail feathers that males possess. The bright coloration of the males is likely a result of sexual selection ...

If you’ve ever seen a peacock’s glittering tail ... the feather reflect bluish light from many viewing angles, and it’s these non-iridescent structural colors that make blue jays blue ...

In effect, the toothed, blue-jay-size Y. kompsosoura would have been ... "A female bird would look at a male with goofily burdensome tail feathers and think, 'Dang, if he's able to survive even ...

Blue jays (recognizable by their blue, black, and white feathers. Unlike most blue birds ... iridescent blue-green with blackish wings and tail and white underparts, while females are a dull ...

By the time I got close enough to see that it wasn’t any sort of trash at all, the wind had lifted it and tossed it into our yard: a blue jay’s tail feather, newly molted. In late summer ...

Blue jays sport mostly blue feathers with a bluish crest that gives ... line on either side of their face and black bars on their tail. Blue jays measure on average close to 1 foot long from ...

Did you know that Blue Jays aren’t really blue? The color we see is the result of the inner structure of the feathers. There are two types of color in birds — pigmented and structural.

Did you know that Blue Jays aren’t really blue? The color we see is the result of the inner structure of the feathers. There are two types of color in birds — pigmented and structural.