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The avian colourscape is disproportionately threatened by species extinctions

2026-06-23

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The impact of projected extinctions on global animal colour diversity remains unknown. Combining citizen science with self-supervised deep learning, we built novel representations of bird plumage colour patterning based on >125,000 museum specimen images covering 9,143 species. We demonstrate that losing currently threatened bird species will drive a disproportionate reduction in avian plumage diversity, with the...

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DOI: 10.64898/2026.06.22.733718

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