The male Northern Cardinal gets noticed so easily in it's bright red feathers...
I thought I would post two views of the female, which is lovely in her own right, with soft earth tones...
The Indigo Bunting is another species with similar characteristics...
The female is a dull earthy brown while the male is resplendent in a coat of deep indigo blue...
The color scheme evolved to make the female harder to detect by predators while nesting and rearing her off spring. The colorful males evolved to attract females.
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