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| Male Indigo Bunting foraging for seeds How Do Birds Get Their Colors? by Grandma Pearl |
Have you ever wondered why some birds have iridescent patches; or why
Northern Cardinals are red; or what makes Blue Jays blue? How dull would life
be without the colors that punctuate our lives?
Everywhere you look Mother Nature has given us a huge paint box full of
colors; and she reserves her most diverse color palette for our backyard birds.
My two most memorable gifts were my first watch, because I have always been
fascinated with the concept of time and how it surrounds and consumes us; and
the industrial size box of 64 crayons! Later
on Crayola bested themselves with an even larger size, which I was very
fortunate to receive as a gift as well.
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| Male Northern Cardinal by Grandma Pearl |
Colors, especially those emanating from the natural world, nurture and feed
my creative soul. They determine in
large part how I feel, whether it be happy on a sunny, green goddess day; or
contemplative when the wind blows cold and grey.
So how do birds’ feathers develop their colorations?
Pigment and how the feather is constructed determine the color of birds'
feathers. The pigments come from just 3
different groups. To learn about these pigments and where they come from, and why blue jay feathers look blue even though they are really dark brown, click here
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| Male Ruby-Throated Hummingbird by Grandma Pearl |
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