How woodcocks produce the most brilliant white plumage patches among the birds
J. Dunning, A. Patil, A. Bond, L. D'Alba, G. Debruyn, A. Dhinojwala, M. Shawkey, L. Jenni
The paper explains how Eurasian woodcocks produce exceptionally bright white plumage patches through nanostructural and macrostructural light scattering mechanisms.
bioRxiv · Dec 9, 2022Ecology