Plumage and body parts of birds-of-paradise glow in certain areas when viewed under blue and ultraviolet, or UV, light, ...
“Finding this beautiful green-yellow glow in birds-of-paradise suggests that there’s even more going on in their elaborate hierarchy and courtship displays than meets the eye,” she adde ...
Researchers described biofluorescence in 37 of the 45 known species of birds-of-paradise, found only in remote tropical forests and woodland habitats of Papua New Guinea, eastern Indonesia and ...
The feathers of a male emperor bird-of-paradise glow in a yellow-green hue. Rene Martin / American Museum of Natural History “Despite there being over 10,000 described avian species, with ...