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GEORGE'S
FUNNIES
George is the class clown at the ciaque mailing list. He is an absolute delight!! Below is a fine example of his wonderful humor.
The set up:
An article had been posted on the mailing list explaining how studies
"suggests that budgies derive some of their sex appeal from the fluorescence
of their feathers" (as reported in The
Sexy Glow of Parrot Plumage). The site provides photos of budgies
under white light, and then also under short-wavelength illumination.
The second shot shows the fluorescence of the feathers and thus we are
given insight into what parrots may be seeing in the ultra violet spectrum.
The e-mails:
George e-mailed this picture of Chirp to the Caique Mailing List. Chirp
had been eating raspberries and you can see that he looks like a caique
staring in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Click on the picture to see it full-size. This will allow you to see the
pigment Ingrid is speaking of in the e-mail exchange.
Here is the e-mail exchange between Ingrid and George after he posted Chirp's raspberry picture.
Ingrid: Does Chirp have pigment around his eyes? It looks like
he does in the raspberry pic & makes his eye look a different shape
than round. It's very pretty.
George: Do you mean on the skin surrounding the eye, or on the
eyeball? He does have a red ring around the perimeter of the eyeball,
but that's ON the eyeball.
Ingrid: I meant on the skin around the eye ball. Looks like he
has eye liner on.
George: Upon closer examination, I discovered that not only was Ingrid correct about Chirp's eye liner, but there is a whole lot more that wasn't initially obvious to the human eye. See attached photo, where I used a special mode on my digital camera that brings out colors that only parrots can perceive, and which are beyond the range of normal human vision.
To see more of George's digital artistry you can visit his site at www.photofixpro.com,
or send him an email .