A first-ever collaboration between the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian examines the birth of natural history.

The first bird on our list is the bird of paradise. This bird is found primarily in the tropical forests of New Guinea and surrounding islands ... Nattapong Assalee/Shutterstock.com The greater sage ...

This bird measures between 25 and 26 cm, with males reaching 26 cm and females 25 cm. For a bird of paradise, it is small but very agile. The male has shiny black feathers with two distinctive, ...

Birds-of-paradise are among the most resplendent creatures on Earth ... a recent study found that the birds — native to Australia, Indonesia, and New Guinea — are also biofluorescent. Their skin and ...

National Emblem of Papua New Guinea: The Raggiana Bird-of-Paradise, or Kumul as it is locally known, appears on the national flag as an essential symbol of Papua New Guinea’s connection to nature.

Bird counts have been taking place over the past ... Work began several years ago on a new approach called “engineering with nature” that included landscaping and wetland vegetation.

“A sunset tinge” is how Papua New Guinea ethnobiologist Challis Pulotu describes the red on a live, “really beautiful” raggiana bird of paradise (Paradisaea raggiana) he once had a chance ...

Found in the forests of Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and Eastern Australia, birds of paradise are famous for flashy feathers and unusually shaped ornaments, which set the standard for haute ...

Researchers described biofluorescence in 37 of the 45 known species of birds-of-paradise, found only in remote tropical forests and woodland habitats of Papua New Guinea, eastern Indonesia and ...

This offered the opportunity to investigate birds-of-paradise without needing to travel to their habitat in Australia, Indonesia, and New Guinea. “I believe natural history museums and their ...

Researchers at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) combed through the available archives and found that all 37 core bird-of-paradise species in Australia, New Guinea, and Indonesia are ...