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Pictures
Introduction
http://www.mypetbudgie.com/budgies/1-budgie-parakeet-95.jpg
http://www.mickaboo.com/newsletter/apr10/Light.html
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/images/graphics/d-e/dragonflydarner.gif
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/images/graphics/d-e/dragonflydarnerhumanview.gif
Phylogeny
http://www.ou.edu/class/zoo2204/vertphyl.jpg
http://2345bgs.homestead.com/files/archeopteryx.jpg
http://www.search4dinosaurs.com/jm_archeopteryx.jpg
http://scienceblogs.com/evolgen/upload/2008/06/bird_phylogeny_sm.JPG
Eaton 2006
Ontogeny
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Altricial_chicks.jpg
Xu et. al. 2007
http://www.getty.edu/conservation/science/lighting/lighting_images.html
Widelitz et. al. 2003
Mechanism
Wilkie et. al. 1998
Hart and Hunt 2007
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Parrot-feather.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2f/FeatherMagnified.JPG
Adaptive Value
http://www.hiltonpond.org/images/OwlSawWhetWingUV01.jpg
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/img/budgiefluro2.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Woodland_English_Autumn_Sunlit.JPG
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