Researchers recently discovered that dozens of species in the flamboyant family are biofluorescent, emitting a gleaming light ...

“They’ve evolved bright metallic-looking feathers that shine and reflect light due to ... and measure biofluorescence across a variety of organisms, including birds.” By moving blue lights over ...

Even the skin on their feet and the insides of their mouths would fluoresce in blue and UV light. Females had fewer biofluorescent feathers, usually on the chest and abdomen. Birds of paradise are ...

Illuminated by blue and UV light ... aren’t biofluorescent don’t have that ultra-black feather.” There are more than 11,000 known bird species, but only a handful of groups are known ...

A survey of museum specimens reveals that more than a dozen species of the birds sport biofluorescence in feathers, skin or even inside their throats.