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.

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

A Congo peacock’s feathers are deep blue with a metallic green and violet tinge. They have a black tail with fourteen tail feathers. The peahen is generally a chestnut brown bird with a black ...

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 ...

But blue pigment is rare. Instead, the blue sported by bluebirds comes from tiny air pockets inside the feathers, which scatter light to create blue. Red feathers, however, rely on pigment alone.

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 ...