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  • Yes. Birds have highly developed vision and can perceive colours. Birds have an elaborate variety of cones cells, with more morphological complexity and diversity than those of mammals. The structure of the bird retina is also more complex than humans'. Multiple foveae and other specialized regions that are suggested by non-uniform distributions of oil droplets (such as the red quadrant of the pigeon's retina) indicate a degree of complexity that is not present in the human eye and for which our own sensory experience provides little intuitive understanding. Birds may have a generalized system of color vision, but individual species may also have features of their eyes adapted to specific visual tasks or conditions, and attention to this ecological dimension in formulating hypotheses about visual function is likely to be critical.
  • Birds have a wide range of visual capabilities. Their ability to see, in many regards, is the deciding factor in their ability to function. Bird species have differing abilities to visualize in colour. Some species have up to five times the number of rods and cones in their eyes than do humans. Rods operate best in darkness and cones during daylight. Cones have different colour pigments, which provide the ability to see in colour. Humans have three colour pigments and birds have five, giving them a better ability to differentiate between different shades of colour. (This also explains why night vision appears much more monochromatic than does day vision.) Bird's eyes also feature oil droplets that filter the light, allowing them to see smaller differences between colours, in comparison to humans. The oil colour varies among different species, tailored to the environment the bird species lives in and derives sustenance from. The eyes of birds are located in different positions, according to the role the species fills. Most birds of prey have forward-facing eyes, providing them with similar binocular capabilities as humans. Some species can move their eyes over a wide range, better allowing them to maintain binocular vision at the peripherals. There are several other aspects of their vision, again depending on the species, that provide birds with exceptional visual capabilities. On the other hand, most birds have a very poor sense of smell.
  • Yes they can. Ive never studied this but ive heard. I'm watching you like a hawk or ive got eagle like vision. well i guess that would be more of a referance to the precision of their vision but you know what im getting at
  • I think they can see 100 x more colours than humans...(I think)
  • i think they also see in the dark!
  • birds see the color flormoogian
  • we can not say the birds see colors but can we say are they deffer the color like see the red is red green is green or blue is blue i do not think the deffrenitiate the colors but the strength of the light and dark of things
  • The first thing I'd have to say is use your logic! Bird feathers occur in almost every color (and non-color) in the rainbow. Do you think this evolutionary adaptation is for OUR enjoyment alone?

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