It turns out that the late Michael Jackson wasn't the only one who can moonwalk: Photographer Tim Laman captured a manakin (it's a tropical bird, not a life-size doll) busting a remarkably similar ...

Birds make beautiful chirping songs, but have you ever seen them make music with their wings? That is one of the skills of the club-winged manakin! These birds make music with their wings by vibrating ...

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, a couple of birds with exotic tastes had an interspecies tryst. Now, a Canadian-led team of scientists has confirmed their descendants are a new species that arose ...

In the cloud forests of Colombia and Ecuador, resides the club-winged manakin, a bird that uniquely 'sings' with its wings. Unlike other songbirds, the male manakin produces a high-pitched tone by ...

A rare, vivid green bird with radiant yellow head feathers is actually a unique hybrid species that lives in the Amazon rainforest, researchers have found. The small, golden-crowned manakin was first ...

Scientists have discovered the first known hybrid bird species to be found in the Amazon rainforest — a golden-crowned manakin with yellow feathers. A hybrid species forms when two parental species ...

White-collared manakin, Manacus candei, photographed in La Selva Biological Station, Organisation for Tropical Biology, Heredia province, Costa Rica (Central America). Image: Nick Athanas/Tropical ...

Male birds that impress females with complex acrobatic movements tend to be smaller than females of the same species, probably because their reduced body size makes them more agile. In birds, it is ...