Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Blue Plumage

Massimo
‏ @Rainmaker1973
1h1 hour ago

The Splendid fairywren blue plumage is highly iridescent due to the flattened and twisted surface of the barbules. The blue plumage also reflects UV light, so it's prominent to other fairywrens, whose colour vision extends into this part of the spectrum https://buff.ly/2qBxicM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splendid_fairywren

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