{"id":3693,"date":"2013-10-22T03:45:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T07:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=3693"},"modified":"2013-10-22T05:26:08","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T09:26:08","slug":"that-curious-creature-the-technicolor-starling-illuminated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2013\/10\/22\/that-curious-creature-the-technicolor-starling-illuminated\/","title":{"rendered":"That curious creature, the technicolor starling, illuminated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>My power animal<\/strong><\/span>: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hildebrandt's_Starling\">Hildebrandt&#8217;s starling<\/a>. <\/em>Similar to some butterflies, these starlings are colored by the microscopic structure of its feathers, not pigment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/files\/2013\/10\/Lamprotornis_hildebrandti_-Tanzania-8-2c.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3694\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2013\/10\/22\/that-curious-creature-the-technicolor-starling-illuminated\/lamprotornis_hildebrandti_-tanzania-8-2c\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/files\/2013\/10\/Lamprotornis_hildebrandti_-Tanzania-8-2c.jpg?fit=470%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"470,600\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Lamprotornis_hildebrandti_-Tanzania-8-2c\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/files\/2013\/10\/Lamprotornis_hildebrandti_-Tanzania-8-2c.jpg?fit=470%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3694\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/files\/2013\/10\/Lamprotornis_hildebrandti_-Tanzania-8-2c.jpg?resize=470%2C600\" alt=\"My power animal: the technicolor starling\" width=\"470\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/files\/2013\/10\/Lamprotornis_hildebrandti_-Tanzania-8-2c.jpg?w=470&amp;ssl=1 470w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/files\/2013\/10\/Lamprotornis_hildebrandti_-Tanzania-8-2c.jpg?resize=117%2C150&amp;ssl=1 117w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/files\/2013\/10\/Lamprotornis_hildebrandti_-Tanzania-8-2c.jpg?resize=235%2C300&amp;ssl=1 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800080\">Putting peacocks (<span style=\"color: #3366ff\">and the stray<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Lamprotornis_chalybaeus_-Kruger_National_Park,_South_Africa-8.jpg\">chalybaeus<\/a>) to shame for 2,000,000 years.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/earth\/\">Gaia<\/a>. \u00a0via <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>. (this one is from Tanzania)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My power animal: Hildebrandt&#8217;s starling. Similar to some butterflies, these starlings are colored by the microscopic structure of its feathers, not pigment. &nbsp; Putting peacocks (and the stray\u00a0chalybaeus) to shame for 2,000,000 years. HT: Gaia. \u00a0via Wikimedia Commons. 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