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   Fifty Shades of Black: These Bird Feathers Are The Darkest Never Seen

   "Scientists studying the many shades of black have discovered how birds create one of the blackest blacks known: super-black feathers."

   by @grrlscientist via #Medium

   #UltraBlack #SuperBlack #birds #ornithology #colors #feathers #SciComm https://medium.com/grrlscientist/fifty-shades-of-black-these-bird-feathers-are-the-darkest-never-seen-5a2f96e37371

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     @grrlscientist Image description:
     The male Superb Bird of Paradise displays his feathers to a brown female, they are both sitting on a thick tree branch. The male has super black feathers surrounding a bright blue feather patch. The black bird is not recognizable as a bird but looks like a black oval or as if someone had edited the photo by drawing over it with black and some blue color.