Psittacofulvins!

[Kiwibird]

I know a lot about parrots, but had never heard of these specialized pigments in their feathers until I was looking through my Instagram feed this morning and saw a post by Portland’s own OSMI (our local science museum). What an absolutely fascinating subject! I am super interested in learning more and probably will do some more intensive research when I have some free time. I just thought I’d share here too since we have some fellow parrot geeks who like knowing all kinds of stuff about their birds too. Or am I the only one who had never heard of this before lol?

Original post, giving full credit to OSMI:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B40qJZ0oWON/?igshid=1tne5hjggenyq

 

[SailBoat]

Man this is really going to display my Nerdisms.
This subject is one that requires a full night's sleep and thus being wide awake.

In simple terms, the colors that Parrots create and we see is not what other Parrots see. As a result as you slide into this subject, remember that what we see is not what Another Parrot of the Same Species sees. Defining color as created /provided by Parrots is like seeing color in a very different term.

The shape shifting that the colorations create change with the angle in which the Sunlight and its intensity provides. Also, note the change as the surface of the feather is altered by addition water and the color goes flat and dark mono.

Enjoy the article. May it create an interest in deeper study of the multiple levels of communicates used by Parrots. If it does Web search the topic and find a World much larger than you perceived.

Thanks,
Sorry for the ramblings, it's like explaining why the sky looks blue.

 

[Rozalka]

I've Heard about it the first time during learning about parrot mutations. All colors which are created by psittacuflois (sorry, this Word is new to me but in English and wrote incorrectly) are removed by the blue mutation. Many parrot species naturally are green, this is a 'combination' of two colors: blue and yellow - because of it yellow is "deleted" and the parrot is blue. Ok, but not all parrots are green - this doesn't mean the blue mutation doesn't exist in these ones, they can have their own name used only for their spesies - the best example whiteface cockatiel. After reading this I checked few species - this really works! Later I started imaging how could look the blue mutation of B&g macaws, rainbow lorikeets etc. Then I didn't know that these two examples really had bred blue ones and my thoughts about their looking were right! [emoji4] I wrote this because this maybe also can be interesting - knowing psittacolfis (I know, I wrote wrong, on tapatalk I don't see the tread tittle during writing) colors we can say how a blue mutation could look in species which hadn't bred this yet (I know my last sentece is gramatical terrible[emoji28])

Wysłane z mojego Redmi 5 przy użyciu Tapatalka

 

[Laurasea]

Lol
I have this on ornithology thread
It's a great place to post the science stuff

 

[wrench13]

I would like to read a study where sensors in the higher and lower spectra were used to photograph or capture (using similar higher and lower spectra films) what a parrot ( Amazon preferably) sees when looking at another. I believe this ability is one that allows our parrots to 'sense' our moods an even thoughts.