Male Eastern Bluebird (IMAGE)

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Male Eastern Bluebird

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This is a male eastern bluebird (Sialia sialis, Turdidae).

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Image courtesy of Ken Thomas (image in public domain). Published in Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 1792-1795. E.R. Dufresne et al., “Self-assembly of amorphous biophotonic nanostructures by phase separation.” Royal Society of Chemistry. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/B902775K

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