Indigo bunting
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- Field guideHow birds navigate during migrationMigration requires both a heading and a way to relate the bird's current position to a destination. Different birds combine inherited programs, learned landmarks, and several sensory cues, with no single mechanism explaining every journey.
- Field guideHow feathers create colorGrowing feather cells place pigments and organize keratin, air spaces, and melanin bodies into precise structures. After the feather is dead, those materials absorb some wavelengths and scatter others, producing blacks, browns, reds, yellows, whites, blues, ultraviolet signals, and iridescence.