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.

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 ...

These birds are typically 9 to 12 inches long from beak to tail ... have the blue jay’s black necklace or significant black ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

“The sight of a feather ... tail feathers known as “train-rattling.” The findings were published April 27 in the journal PLOS ONE. Train feathers are the the long, quintessential green, blue ...

When northern cardinals and blue jays are done nesting, it is time for them to molt. When going through a molt, cardinals and jays will replace old feathers with brand new ones. With some ...