As brilliant as they are, we can only see half of their color. Cardinals are as bright in…

As brilliant as they are, we can only see half of their color. Cardinals are as bright in ultraviolet as they are in red, a color human eyes can’t see. Their true color is one for which we have no name, one that mixes UV and red the way fuchsia mixes red and blue. Birds however can see it as clearly as any other color. What fuchsia is to our eyes, “cardinal” is to birds. Ryan Moulton, A Few of the…