Backyard songbirds, like cardinals and chickadees, see the world with visual clarity surpassing human eyesight. Acute bird vision derives from the retina's fovea - the center of sharpest vision - that ...

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If optimists see the world through rose-colored lenses, some birds see it through ultraviolet ones. Avians have evolved ultraviolet vision quite a few times in history, a new study finds. Subscribe to ...

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Indoor life is comfortable for pet birds, but it comes with one big downside: most homes don’t provide the kind of light birds evolved to live under. In the wild, birds spend hours in sunlight that ...