http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Re-Assessing-bird-colouration-tp3686131p3686137.html
in that case, a genetic analysis might provide more conclusive results (provided that reference data already exists).
> Many thanks for all the comments so far.
>
>
>
> I'll just quickly summarise the background to my query. In late November,
> a
> Hoopoe was found dead in Durham, UK and is now stored at the Discovery
> Museum in Newcastle, UK. To my eyes, the dark colouration of the orange on
> the bird suggests it may belong to the subspecies saturata (which
> originates
> from Asia), as opposed to the subspecies epops (which originates from
> Europe). As concluded by Ericson, a key difference between these
> subspecies
> is the colouration of the orange. A photo of the bird can be found here:
>
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31121749@N06/5276824748/>
>
>
> If it is possible to produce equivalent results as Ericson, this would
> help
> in deciding which subspecies the bird belongs to (and therefore whether it
> may have originated from Asia or Europe).
>
>
>
> So could anybody provide a step-by-step method, which would produce
> results
> comparable with those of Ericson, for photographing the bird (my camera is
> a
> Canon 40D) and analysing the photos in Image J (or any other program)?
> Robert Dougherty in particular hinted that this may be possible.
>
>
>
> Thanks again
>
>
>
> Ross
>
>
>
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>
> If you can *see* the differences between the birds with your eyes in
> pictures taken with a camera that takes RGB images, I think, it should be
> possible. Maybe you need some sort of "standard curve" / reference data
> sets
> created by visual assertion of birds to groups.
>
> Actually this might be a good job for a neuronal network.
>
>
>
> Have fun
>
>
>
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