Ultraviolet Vision in Birds

By Innes C. Cuthill, J. Partridge, A. Bennett, S. Church, N. Hart, S. Hunt. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change

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Differential effects of a parasite on ornamental structures based on melanins and carotenoids (2002, background): “from (or included last into) the model ( Crawley, 1993 ).”
Conspicuousness, not colour as foraging cue in plant–animal signalling (2004, background): “However, our data cover the maximum UV wavelength absorbance in birds which is 360-370 nm or higher (Cuthill et al. 2000).”
Using digital photography to study animal coloration (2007, background): “Mapping RGB data to a bird’s colour space would appear to be invalid on two counts: birds have a broader spectral range than a conventional camera (often extending into the UV-A) and are potentially tetrachromatic (Cuthill et al., 2000b).”
UV-blue structural coloration and competition for nestboxes in male eastern bluebirds (2005, unknown): “The visual system of most bird species, including all passerine birds tested to date, however, is sensitive to UV wavelengths (Cuthill et al. 2000).”
Conspicuousness, not eye mimicry, makes "eyespots" effective antipredator signals (2008, background): “tive to ultraviolet (UV) light (Cuthill et al. 2000; Cuthill 2006), this is not a problem with the experimental design because we merely wished to create stimuli that were conspicuous against the background on which they were placed, and the lichen-absent trees to which the targets were pinned refle”
Sources of stress in captivity (2007, background): “For these species, wavelengths of light in the short end of the electromagnetic spectrum are part of their color space, and therefore necessary for optimal perception of their surroundings (Cuthill et al., 2000).”
Multiple sexual ornaments in satin bowerbirds: ultraviolet plumage and bowers signal different aspects of male quality (2003, background): “We restricted spectral analyses to wavelengths from 300–700 nm, as most birds are sensitive to ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths (300–400 nm; Cuthill et al., 2000), and 700 nm is likely the upper limit of the vertebrate visual spectrum (Jacobs, 1981).”
Conspicuous males suffer higher predation risk: visual modelling and experimental evidence from lizards (2003, background): “This is particularly important given that the great majority of predation experiments have focused on avian predators, which have a very different visual system from that of primates (Cuthill et al. 2000; Hart 2001b).”
Ultraviolet reflection and female mate choice in the pied flycatcher, Ficedula hypoleuca (2002, background): “A growing body of evidence and experimental work on this subject has accumulated in recent years (Cuthill et al. 2000).”
Achromatic plumage reflectance predicts reproductive success in male black-capped chickadees (2005, background): “We restricted spectral analyses to wavelengths from 300–700 nm, a range generally corresponding to the chickadee visual spectrum (Chen and Goldsmith, 1986; Cuthill et al., 2000).”
The evolution of song in female birds in Europe (2007, methodology): “We are aware that our method of estimating plumage brightness based on human vision does not account for UV wavelengths that birds can perceive (Bennett et al. 1996; Andersson and Amundsen 1997; Cuthill et al. 2000).”