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There is nothing like the royal blue of an indigo bunting. In the Northeast, they arrive fashionably late to the spring fling ...
In the case of the indigo bunting, a songbird that migrates ... Through their superposition compound eyes, a beetle’s view of the night sky is certainly no detailed star chart.
The stars you and I see in the sky every night are different than the patterns ... machine that translates the maps into gorgeous, indigo-dyed cloth prints. Even more impressive?
Like many migratory songbirds, indigo buntings of North America fly ... mimicking the apparent movement of the natural night sky, the birds attempted to hop south, as expected.
Young indigo buntings, raised in an altered planetarium, were tricked into thinking the night sky rotated around Betelgeuse rather than Polaris. (They were given time to recalibrate before their ...