Birds lose color vision in twilight

Sunday, November 15, 2009 - 20:14 in Biology & Nature

The color vision of birds stops working considerably earlier in the course of the day than was previously believed, in fact, in the twilight. Birds need between 5 and 20 times as much light as humans to see colors.

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