by Nick Atkinson
RESEARCH ROUND-UP	How birds keep secrets in color Email: Nick Atkinson - nwa@entangled.org News from The Scientist 2005, 6(1):20050427-02 Published   27 April 2005

Songbirds are able to communicate with potential mates using plumage colors while remaining inconspicuous to avian predators, Swedish researchers suggest in PNAS this week. They do so by using colors that the larger birds are less able to discriminate from the background.

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