For anyone who is really curious the original article’s URL is here:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02088-w It looks like it’s an
open-access paper, so anyone should be able to view it at no cost. There’s a
photo of the gold-coated feather (that still looks black) at part of the
CayugaBirders:
Next week’s Monday Night Seminar features Vanya Rohwer and Casey Dillman.
Together, Vanya and Casey curate the birds, mammals, fishes, amphibians,
and reptiles that make up the collections of the Cornell University Museum
of Vertebrates. After a brief lecture in the auditorium,
Just heard a Pileated Woodpecker drumming several times in Ringwood Preserve.
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Curious readers may be interested in this evolutionary feature in Birds
of Paradise . I have extracted below some paragraphs from a report in
PhysicsWorld (UK). I don't have the reference to the original papers.
Nari Mistry
= Extracted from PhysicsWorld (UK)=
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