Here are six easy ways you can support molting chickens (and other birds) during their molting season. You have questions, we ...

He ‘looks like he is wearing a brown feather boa over a white tuxedo shirt.' ...

Melbourne’s 50-pound celebrity chick is molting, revealing adult feathers beneath his iconic brown fluff. Here’s what to expect as he waddles into adulthood.

The beloved bird—who became a global internet sensation earlier this year—is molting. The brown fluff covering his body is falling off, and his black and white adult feathers are starting to ...

Some lose every feather, others only lose a few. What can you do for molting birds? Molting is hard work and can take a toll on chickens. Feathers are 85% protein, and generating new ones is an ...

This would've led to food scarcity, O'Connor said, which would've been especially detrimental for some molting birds. There doesn't seem to be a singular reason why modern birds' ancestors ...

In flight, wings appear translucent. Adult: one molt per year, but fresh fall adults look very different from summer birds. On freshly molted birds, black plumage has white spots all over ...

Unlike most shorebirds, phalaropes spend most of their time swimming and change their feathers — a process known as molting — en route to their wintering grounds. In phalaropes, the typical bird sex ...

Unlike all other birds, penguins go through what is called a “catastrophic” moult. For the penguin, it is probably as bad as it sounds. Falklands Conservation recalls that every penguin must ...