F I G U R E 1 Illustration of the plumage colour scores for 398 parrot species. (a) L-score ... More distribution showing dark to light colours, (b) a-score distribution showing green to red ...

"Parrots do their own thing when it comes to color," adds Dr. Roberto ... scientists studied another parrot, the rosy-faced lovebirds, a species that displays both green (i.e., yellow ...

Corbo and colleagues turned to the dusky lory (Pseudeos fuscata), a parrot species that ... which have both red and green feathers, to crack the color code. A combination of chemical and genetic ...

"Budgerigars are a great system for studying parrot colors because artificial selection ... in some parakeets turns the birds from yellow and green to blue. But it wasn't clear which genes and ...