With its three-color receptors, the human eye can distinguish over a million colors. An LCD television can produce over one billion colors. And Sherwin Williams, a paint manufacturer, makes about 1700 colors. And someone has to name them. Until the 17th century, there was no word for the color orange, so orange-colored things were described […] The post The Evolution of Bird Color Guides and Identification appeared first on Ornithology.
