One cannot help being struck with wonder at the vivid pink of
10,000 flamingos rising from Lake Nakuru or the glowing red gorget
of a ruby-throated hummingbird feeding outside the kitchen window.
How birds produce the brilliant and striking coloration of their
feathers and other body parts is the focus of this first volume of
"Bird Coloration," It has been more than 40 years since the
mechanisms of color production of birds have been reviewed and
synthesized and in those 40 years new pigments have been
discovered, new genetic mechanisms have been described, new
theories have been developed, and hundreds of new experiments have
been conducted.
Geoffrey Hill and Kevin McGraw have assembled the world's
leading experts in perception, measurement, and control of bird
coloration to contribute to this book. This sumptuously illustrated
volume synthesizes more than 1,500 technical papers in this field.
The focus is on the three primary mechanisms of color
production--melanin pigmentation, carotenoid pigmentation, and
structural coloration--but less common as well as newly described
mechanisms of color production are also reviewed in detail. The
visual perception of birds and the best ways to collect and analyze
color data are, for the first time, presented as part of the review
of mechanisms of coloration. This book will be essential reading
for biologists studying animal coloration, but it will also be
treasured by anyone curious about how birds produce and perceive
their bold and brilliant color displays.
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