Since these were not real birds, it must have been the colouration and the song that were the cues.

既然这些不是真正鸟，那么色和鸣啭一定就是线索。

Their giant peepers are a classic  example of startle colouration.

他们巨大眼睛是惊吓色典型。

You start to get that sort of motley colouration there it gets worse there.

你开始在那里得到那种杂色色，那里变得更。

Their bill opens from ear  to ear, and the inside has bright colouration that is  thought to attract insects.

他们喙从一只耳朵张开到另一只耳朵，里面有鲜色，被认为可以吸引昆虫。

The discovery makes sense, considering the mummy's dark colouration and lack of hair, says co-author Albert Zink, a mummy researcher at Eurac Research in Bolzano, Italy.

这一发现是合理，考虑到木乃伊深色着色和缺乏头发，该研究合著者、意大利博尔扎诺欧拉克研究所木乃伊研究员阿尔伯特·津克表示。

Thayer eventually got a little carried away and argued that almost all animal colouration of any type was for camouflage like when he insisted that flamingos were pink so that they would blend into the sky at sunset and sunrise.

塞耶最终有点忘乎所以，他认为几乎所有类型动物色都是为了伪装，就像他坚持认为火烈鸟是粉红色，这样它们就可以在日落和日出时融入天空一样。