The blue jay bird is famous for its brilliant blue feathers, but these feathers are not blue. Unlike most other birds, these birds lack blue pigments in their plumage. Blue is not a pigment but an ...

Blue jays are bright blue on top, white or light gray underneath, and have black and white bars on their wings and tail ...

I seem to have become a bird watcher – a delightful pastime ... I learnt the surprising fact that the jay’s feather isn’t actually blue ! There is no pigment, the structure of the feather ...

Wilson’s warblers do not visit feeders, All About Birds reports, but if these tiny insectivores are out of luck in winter in ...

the jayOpens in new window ] This “structural colour” phenomenon explains why the jay in the wood has blue in its wing feathers. In many birds, just as in butterflies, the colour depends on ...