when fashionable women began wearing hats adorned with feathers, wings and even entire taxidermied birds. The egrets’ brilliant white plumage, especially the gossamer wisps of feather that ...

wide women's hats adorned with exotic bird plumes. The act includes bans on possessing "feathers in your yard, a dead bird on the road or even a bird nest on your front porch," the Fernbank Center ...

A male masked crimson tanager displays his brilliant red and black plumage in Peru. Francesco Veronesi via Flickr under CC BY-SA 2.0 Male tanagers are birds that use eye-popping colors to woo mates.

The Great Egret is a symbol of resilience, strength, and prosperity. The Audubon Society uses this bird’s imagery to ...

European women began wearing their feathers, or an entire dead bird, on hats. Backlash against their destruction helped spark modern Audubon Societies and conservation movements, Scholes said.