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Microspectroscopy Reveals Feather Color Mechanisms
3+ hour, 27+ min ago (1250+ words) Bird feathers’ coloration stems from a combination of pigmentation and microstructural optical effects functioning at spatial scales ranging from whole barbs down to individual barbules just a handful of microns across. Characterizing these microscopic structures’ spectral reflectance necessitates the use…...