Just found out that birds see in ultraviolet.
I have zero idea what ultraviolet is or even what that means other than UV rays but that means nothing to me.
It seems like it would be easier to spot birds in trees or fields if I could see in ultraviolet maybe similar to how we have heat cameras or night vision goggles.
Is there an ultraviolet camera or scope or something similar?
In: Biology
Yes. [We have UV cameras.](https://youtu.be/V9K6gjR07Po) They aren’t like thermal cameras, as unlike far-IR, nothing nearby glows in UV. Certainly not birds. It does, however, give us one more tool with which to observe our world and study distant objects in space.
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