Fig. 1. Breast feather colour. (A,B) Average reflectance spectra of nestling breast
feathers for (A) great tits (N=656 spectra) and (B) blue tits
(N=864). (B,C) Association between principal component standardised
score coefficients for PC1 (black line) PC2 (dark grey line) and PC3 (light
grey line) and wavelength for (C) great tits and (D) blue tits.