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The blue-eyed ground dove is one of Brazil’s hidden treasures, tucked quietly away in the country’s tropical savannas. It is one of the rarest birds on Earth, and only a lucky few have heard its ...
Researchers have discovered an extraordinary, vibrantly colored tropical bird with "female ... typically have grassy green feathers, while the males are a brilliant blue. However, this individual ...
visitors take a meandering path through a lush tropical forest where many of the birds, such as the red-and-yellow beaked toucan and the Nicobar pigeons with iridescent green and blue feathers ...
This is only the second recorded example of bilateral gynandromorphy in a Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza), the previous report dating back to 1914.And in that case, it was blue on the left ...
The bird has a blue-gray head and yellow-orange underside. It is native to South and Central America, but has been spotted around U.S. states, mostly along the border in Mexico. A tropical parula ...
violet or blue, then emit the light in a lower-energy wavelength. Researchers described biofluorescence in 37 of the 45 known species of birds-of-paradise, found only in remote tropical forests ...
Christina Riehl, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, will present “Biology and Conservation of Tropical Birds: Linking Life History to Ecology” in Guyot Hall, Room 10, and online ...