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Judi Lynn

(160,588 posts) Mon Aug 6, 2018, 06:01 PM Aug 2018

A bird's eye view: Songbirds perceive colour like humans

By Lucy R Green
Science reporter
2 August 2018

Faced with a glorious spectrum of colour, songbirds, just like humans, look for the big picture.

They can lump nearby hues in the colour spectrum into categories, such as shades that are generally red, or generally orange.

A study now shows that this affects their ability to distinguish between certain colours.

The findings, by a team from Duke University in North Carolina, are published in the journal Nature.

More:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45045375

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A bird's eye view: Songbirds perceive colour like humans (Original Post) Judi Lynn Aug 2018 OP

I assumed that birds can ID colors since there are many different colored flowers... SWBTATTReg Aug 2018 #1

SWBTATTReg

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1. I assumed that birds can ID colors since there are many different colored flowers...

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Mon Aug 6, 2018, 07:07 PM

Aug 2018

just like they figured out that there was a moth/bird w/ a very long snout/tongue (they hadn't seen it yet) since there was a flower that required pollination w/ such, they finally captured such a creature on film (I apologize, I forgotten the critter's name)...

Amazing...

Thanks for providing article for our reading pleasure...

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