Some birds sport unique-looking crowns, crests, or mohawks. Continue reading to learn more about these birds.  9. Golden Pheasant  Also known as the Chinese pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus), ...

So finding birds who actually have long tails required some care. Plus, not only did the feathers have to originate from the tail, but they had to be nearly as long as the bird’s body.

A Greater Roadrunner zoomed into view and hopped atop one of the tee boxes to survey its surroundings. I focused my ...

A bird fossil of similar age to Archaeopteryx shows flight-aiding innovations such as the loss of a long tail. Fossil find reveals the earliest known short-tailed bird. Your privacy, your choice ...

The long-tailed weasel resembles the ermine but has a longer tail, 9.5-16 cm (3.6-6.3 in) ... Both sexes may consume insects, earthworms, frogs, snakes, birds and bird’s eggs, especially when small ...

It also had a long bony tail. "The forelimb is generally built like a bird's wing, but with three claws on the fingers, which are absent from modern birds. So you can call it wing.

Scientists think these long-tailed birds were the males of the species and those with short tails were females. Like modern peacocks and peahens, the males probably used their extravagant tail ...

During a pre-Fourth of July paddle around Long Tail Point, bird monitor Jack Swelstad of Green Bay spotted something at the end of the island. "I found two piping plovers that acted like they were ...

This photograph snapped by Raphael Golez, 44, will have you squinting to try and spot the long-tailed bird; The grey, white and black bird, which is perched on Winchelsea Beach, ...

Baminornis zhenghensis is the sole Jurassic and the oldest short-tailed bird yet discovered, pushing back the appearance of this derived bird feature by nearly 20 million years," said Prof. Wang ...

The wing feathers of the sunda minivet, a diminutive long-tailed bird, are actually about five times smaller than they appear in this photograph. Feathers: Displays of Brilliant Plumage by Robert ...

The great-tailed grackle, called by some the devil bird, is lovely to look at. ... and the male has a long, keel-shaped tail. The two species tend not to interfere with each other, ...