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The plumage colours of E. ruber (red dots), P. rubra (orange dots) and I. isabellae (purple dot) modelled in a tetrahedral avian color space. The grey polyhedron represents the total diversity of colour perceptions produced by carotenoid plumages of 145 plumage patches from 52 species in 23 avian families.
