Brighter is better: bill fluorescence increases social attraction in a colonial seabird and reveals a potential link with foraging
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Crested auklets (Aethia cristatella) are colonial seabirds with brilliant orange bills during the breeding season. We characterized the bill pigment with spectroscopy methods (resonance Raman, fluorescence, absorbance). We excluded carotenoids as a possible ch... ...
