{"id":19357,"date":"2013-10-18T06:33:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T12:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=19357"},"modified":"2013-10-18T06:33:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T12:33:00","slug":"birds-wearing-to-dark-some-visual-evidence-as-to-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/18\/birds-wearing-to-dark-some-visual-evidence-as-to-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds “Wearing To Dark” – Some Visual Evidence As To Why"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past summer\u00a0I posted these first two Loggerhead Shrike images as evidence that the ventral colors of the species change from white to almost black as the summer wears on and asked my readers\u00a0why this occurs.\u00a0 Several responded with a logical explanation.<\/p>\n

Three days ago I photographed a Horned Lark that may demonstrate that\u00a0those readers were right.<\/p>\n

I’m re-posting the first two images to bring everyone up to speed.<\/p>\n

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For most of the year the breast and belly of the Loggerhead Shrike is white but…<\/p>\n

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but by mid-summer those whites turn much darker, almost black in some places.\u00a0 The reason for this rather dramatic color change really puzzled me but Brian Gatlin and Bryce Robinson provided the explanation.\u00a0 I’ll quote Brian who said:<\/p>\n