Ranking the Most Brilliant Birds with Math and Data

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lol, I thought this was an article about bird intelligence.

It is about color:

The Brightest Birds - Ranked by Vividness, Variety of Color, and Diversity

I may have to figure out how to retitle it. I would not have expected so many people to think that about birds!

The title is fine, a little ambiguity isn't a bad thing.

If you ever find yourself surrounded by Crows, Magpies, Parrots, and Corellas (and Cockatoos in general), you might start thinking about both attributes.

Jet black crows have that intensity that Douglas Adams wrote about:

* https://2020science.org/2014/07/14/nanotubes-create-blackest...

there have been many articles here wrt bird intelligence, problem solving and even bird vending machines.

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