Sentence examples for green colouration from inspiring English sources

Here we challenge this notion using the yellow and green colouration of blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus), great tits (Parus major) and greenfinches (Carduelis chloris) as a model.

Most strikingly, lesions on Bd3-1 were surrounded by large areas of chlorosis whereas those on Bd21 retained their green colouration (Additional file 1).

Additionally, in order to show the pattern of variation beyond the range of colouration of blue and great tits, we include reflectance measurements of the greenfinch (Carduelis chloris) which possesses more intensely coloured green and yellow plumage patches than the tit species, and where yellow colouration is more sensitive than green colouration to carotenoid-availability during moult [ 13].

Males are recognisable from their glossy, bright green plumage, while females boast a more bronze-green colouration.

Films showed a dark-brown and dark-green colouration, respectively, and after an overnight heat treatment in air at 1200 °C, they turned blue.

Very large fish tend towards a speckled grey-green colouration.

Unlike great tits, adult blue tits showed sexually dichromatic green back colouration, females being more chromatic.

Green back colouration was moderately sexually dichromatic for greenfinches, males being more chromatic than females.

The green back colouration of fledgling great tits was less intense than in adults, which showed little sexual dichromatism.

High temperature, as well as high humidity, high food moisture content and low individual density, are known to drive green body colouration in grasshoppers [ 14, 15].

As yellow and green blue tit colouration are strongly affected by carotenoid availability during moult, variation in pigment availability between habitats may affect the degree of background-matching or the costliness of producing cryptic plumage.