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

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 ...

A king penguin's first molt is "an important milestone" in the aquatic bird's life, marking their transition to ultimately forage for their own food and leave the colony. Jasmine is a writer at ...

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 ...

Li Zhisai (left) and Zhang Shuai, raptor rehabilitators from Beijing Raptor Rescue Center, release a rescued short-toed snake ...

Pesto, the fuzzy King penguin and social media sensation from the Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium in Australia is beginning the natural molting process. It’s completely normal, but the fluffy bird ...

In a kind of bird puberty, Pesto is losing his baby feathers and adult feathers are taking their place. While king penguin chicks have fluffy, brown down feathers for the first 10 months of their ...